Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book, My Own Country (also in 1994), he won prizes and best-seller status with his humane account of being a foreign doctor tending to AIDS patients in Bible Belt Tennessee at a time when neither homosexuality nor drug abuse was much acknowledged. Now he has turned to the fault lines in himself and in a profession that encourages its practitioners to believe that "M.D. stood for M. Deity...
...people, they notice and are not warmed. More to the point, they are left uninclined to give you what you don't give them. He did not explicitly apologize for having forced the country through seven solid months of mystery, distraction and embarrassment. He suggested this was the fault of an overzealous prosecution...
...psychologist in the Israeli navy, seems too ridiculous for words -- the 28-year old Palestinian, codename "Fathi," was supposedly brainwashed and dispatched over the border with an exploding two-way radio. He passed it on to Arafat, but the booby trap failed to go off because of a "technical fault," according to Ha'aretz...
...July 20]. We should observe a moment of silence for both General Sani Abacha and Chief Moshood Abiola, for they were my fellow Nigerians. The 18th century English writer Alexander Pope wrote, "For forms of government, let fools contest; whate'er is best administer'd is the best..." The fault lies not so much in Nigeria's form of government as in our selfish nature as Nigerians. ANTHONY A. AIYA-OBA Boston...
Born in New York City, Zambello, 41, majored in philosophy at Colgate University, although she already knew she wanted to become a director. Dark-eyed, strong-featured and forceful to a fault, she confesses to being "a born control freak." An apprenticeship with the innovative opera director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle led to her 1986 European debut at Venice's Teatro la Fenice, and her work is now seen regularly at London's Covent Garden and Paris' Bastille Opera, as well as in such American cities as Houston, where her joltingly fresh takes on Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Britten...