Word: fitzpatrick
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Even seniors who can't get out much are finding ways to keep active. At the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville, Md., Elise Fitzpatrick, 83, works out daily in a state-of-the-art fitness center that gleams with treadmills, strength machines and stationary bikes. An Olympic-size swimming pool is just down the hall. Fitzpatrick, a retired professor of nursing, is strengthening her arms and upper body while awaiting an operation to replace her left knee, which she injured in a fall. "Exercising keeps you in the best possible physical and mental condition," Fitzpatrick says...
Massachusetts state regulations require all full-time students to be immunized for measles. The schools themselves determine the definition of a full-time student, according to Sean Fitzpatrick, a spokesperson for the Department of Public Health. Those students not classified by the school as full-time are not required to show proof of immunization to matriculate...
...working with both Tufts and Harvard to reiterate that students taking a full load of four courses should be considered full-time students," Fitzpatrick said. "If these students are taking a full course load then they do need to be immunized...
...landed in Minneapolis, Minn., where she thought about killing Farrakhan, a man her mother believed had conspired in her father's death. The government's case against Qubilah rested on taped conversations in which she talked about the plan. But the tapes were provided by a dubious witness, Michael Fitzpatrick, a former schoolmate of Qubilah's who was also an FBI informer. Farrakhan himself was among the many who eventually labeled the whole affair a setup, charging that Fitzpatrick had pushed Qubilah into the scheme so he could turn her over in exchange for leniency on drug charges he faced...
...immediacy of great fiction and the additional power of truth. He wanted to show America to itself so vividly as to spur the national conscience. It worked too. Every subject he wrote about remains lodged in the mind through the personification that he found for it, from Linda Fitzpatrick, the suburban girl who became fatally involved with the late-1960s counterculture, to Rachel Twymon, the Job-like Boston-ghetto mother in Common Ground. They may be gone now, but they're still alive in Tony's work...