Word: fevered
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...senior, and I have never been to The Game.Freshman laziness kept me from the Yale Bowl in 2003, and a spiking fever did the same in 2005. And then there was 2004, when the funeral of my grandfather—fittingly enough, Yale class of ’41—kept me from the Crimson’s trouncing of the Bulldogs that capped Harvard’s perfect 10-0 season. It was, in retrospect, a fortuitous miss, since circumstances might have complicated my loyalties.But now it’s November of 2006, and all signs point...
...good sense of timing is the primary mark of a good doctor. How long can the fever stay this high before we hospitalize? Should we use a few more days of antibiotics? When do you tell the woman in labor to come in to the hospital? Tell the aging man it's time for his knee replacement? The family it's time for a hospice? Scarcely any time is spent on questions like these in a medical education and if I were to say, "ok, I'll fix that" I don't know where I would begin, how I would...
...That was the reason Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz jumped so aggressively down the throat of General Eric Shinseki when the latter suggested to Congress that the occupation mission would require a "few hundred thousand" troops. It wasn't that Wolfowitz was seized by some Rumsfeldian "new-generation warfare" fever; he was simply determined to eliminate any political obstacle to the invasion...
After the fever-pitch intensity of this “discussion,” you might feel overwhelmed. As time passes, and you’re able to understand what’s just taken place, you will start to feel annoyed and angry. But don’t worry. You’re at Harvard—your intelligence has already been validated. It’s only a matter of time before you see the light, and before you, too, become a liberal...
Chast's cartoons are like entire novels compressed into 4-in. by 3-in. rectangles. One consists of four panels showing ordinary people just reading, sewing, cleaning. The title: "Tuesday Night Fever." It's Madame Bovary writ small. Then there's the one showing the front window of an "Adult Book Shoppe," which displays such salacious titles as Making a Will and What Is a Mortgage...