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...neglect: In addition to hearing voices, Goldstein variously asserted that someone had removed his brain; that he was six or eight inches tall; that his penis had grown from eating contaminated food; that a man named Larry was stealing his feces and eating them with a knife and fork...
...Keyes ranted. Keyes had torn into McCain in their past debate for waffling about whether his 15-year-old daughter, if she were to become pregnant, would be the one to choose whether or not to abort. (McCain ultimately said the family would decide.) "He's done! Stick a fork in him! Nobody who's pro-life will vote for that man if they have any integrity...
...blacks in Albany did not need Sharpton to stir them up, because their city has its own ugly history of tension between blacks and cops. In 1984 Albany police shot and killed Jesse Davis, a deranged mental patient, after he supposedly attacked them with a knife and a carving fork. A grand jury ruled that the shooting was justified. Nine years later, Lewis Oliver, a lawyer who had filed a wrongful-death suit on behalf of Davis' relatives, discovered a photograph taken by a police officer moments after Davis was shot. It showed him clutching only a set of keys...
...moved to an in-plan hospital too soon. And specialists in California, fed up with managed care's unwillingness to compensate them fully, are rebelling against providing voluntary, on-call backup, a critical component of the ED system. To keep them on duty, some hospitals have to fork out $1,000 daily bonuses to neurosurgeons and orthopedists. "We are on the brink of an implosion," cautions Dr. Loren Johnson, director of the ED at Sutter-Davis Hospital in Davis, Calif., and co-chair of an industry task force that investigated the problem. The state lacks the capacity to handle...
...part of their plan to force us to give money. Since our schedule is different from all other schools, we have to spend all our time with Harvard people. We vacation with Harvard people, so we marry Harvard people. Then at our 25th reunion we fork over money because we'll have all these fond, romantic memories: 'Oh look Casey, there's the Grille! Where we first...