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...Still, the Santillan tragedy will prompt transplant patients and their families to wonder, now more than ever, how they can guard against potentially fatal medical errors. As any patient knows, it's bad enough going into the hospital; the last thing you want to worry about is doctors or support staff making a disastrous mistake. John Schochor, an attorney in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. who specializes in medical malpractice cases, offers this advice, not only to transplant patients, but to anyone entering a hospital for an invasive procedure...
...goals from juniors Dennis Packard and Tim Pettit. With just a minute to go in the second, however, the Big Red tallied what proved to be the game winner when Vesce scored on a herculean effort by linemate Stephen Bâby. For Harvard it was a final, fatal relapse of the defensive breakdowns that plagued the Crimson in the first period...
...guzzle champagne in roped-off security. Unfortunately, by the time rock-music pioneer Phil Spector met B-movie actress Lana Clarkson there, the careers of both had seen better days: he was a legendary has-been; she had been a wannabe for way too long. The encounter would prove fatal...
John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Rankin--the U.S. produced men like that because slavery, the nation's fatal flaw, was awful enough to breed opponents of equal fury. In Beyond the River (Simon & Schuster; 333 pages), Ann Hagedorn tells Rankin's story as a window onto that era's most audacious utility, the Underground Railroad, the network of safe houses, sympathetic whites and free blacks that helped runaway slaves escape to the North. Rankin, his steadfast wife and reliable sons were among its major links--crucial enough that furious slaveholders put a bounty on the minister's head...
CHARGED. PHIL SPECTOR, 62, legendary record producer turned virtual recluse; with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson; in Los Angeles. A close friend of John Lennon, Spector co-produced the Beatles' final album Let It Be. His revolutionary "wall of sound" recording techniques transformed the music industry, making possible such 1960s pop hits like the Ronettes' Be My Baby and the Righteous Brothers' You've Lost That Loving Feeling. Spector has been released on $1 million bail and will be represented by Robert Shapiro, the lawyer who played a key role...