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...Mass. General in 2007, far above the state average of 5.5 percent. Angioplasty, a process by which a doctor clears blocked arteries using small inflated balloons, is performed on more than 1 million people in the United States each year, according to the American Heart Association. Dr. Michael A. Fifer ’74, head of Mass. General’s angioplasty program, said the hospital has known about the data for a year and that the high death rate may result from caring for many critically ill patients. “We very carefully analyzed the deaths. The findings...
...following juniors have been elected to the Alpha Chapter Phi Beta Kappa. Those elected are: Hillel M. Bennett of Lowell House and Swampscott; Robert J. Doris of Winthrop House and Woonsocket, R.I.; Michael A. Fifer of Lowell House and Elmhurst, N.Y.; Elliot F. Gerson of Quincy House and Storrs, Conn.; Frederick O. Holley of South House and La Jolla, Calif.; David L. Johnson of Adams House and Indianapolis,; Herman B. Leonard of Currier House and New York City; Joseph F. Nagy of Claverly Hall and Arlington; Eliot W. Nelson of Dunster House and Berkeley, Calif.; Edward M. Stolper of Winthrop...
...following juniors have been elected to the Alpha Chapter Phi Beta Kappa. Those elected are: Hillel M. Bennett of Lowell House and Swampscott; Robert J. Doris of Winthrop House and Woonsocket, R.I.; Michael A. Fifer of Lowell House and Elmhurst, N.Y.; Elliot F. Gerson of Quincy House and Storrs, Conn.; Frederick O. Holley of South House and La Jolla, Calif.; David L. Johnson of Adams House and Indianapolis,; Herman B. Leonard of Currier House and New York City; Joseph F. Nagy of Claverly Hall and Arlington; Eliot W. Nelson of Dunster House and Berkeley, Calif.; Edward M. Stolper of Winthrop...
Prickly as porcupines, Deborah and Nick Fifer (Bette Midler and Woody Allen) wander the aisles of a shopping mall that probably exceeds Ralph's palace in square footage, confessing infidelities and trying to patch up a marriage that only this morning looked as solid as the British monarchy. They are constantly distracted by the consumerism bustling around them and by a mime (Bill Irwin) who is as nosy as he is silent and maybe the most amusing thing about the film...
...Fifer, 1866, Zola remarked that Manet did not shrink from "the abruptness of nature": "His whole being bids him to see in patches, in simple elements charged with energy." The same claims would be made by the postimpressionists-patch and discontinuity, "arrangement" as against continuous modeling. If The Fifer were a little more abstract, more "Japanese," it would almost be a Van Gogh. At times, Manet's tact in balancing the decorative and the real almost passes belief, an example being the black stripe on the fifer's right leg-swelling and closing with negligent grace, extending...