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...doctors on ER, however, are somewhat different. They don't look very glamorous, for one thing. Rushing with their gurneys through the busy Chicago emergency room where they work, they wear frazzled expressions and five- o'clock shadows. Patients come and go so quickly -- a gunshot victim here, a drug overdose there -- that the doctors have little time to accept congratulations, grieve over failure or make speeches about the wonderful work they...
...tiny Swiss farm community of Cheiry, 45 miles northeast of Geneva, saw the moonless sky lit by flames over the farmhouse of Albert Giacobino, a wealthy retired farmer who had bought the place four years ago. Firemen who arrived at the scene found Giacobino dead from a gunshot wound. Tacked to a door of the farmhouse was an audiocassette with a rambling taped discourse about earth, sky and astrological alignments...
...coup against Aristide. This morning the reinstalled President underscored his plea by having Duperval help him raise Haiti's flag at the National Palace. Also today, U.S. forces reported the third suicide by an American soldier during Operation Uphold Democracy, this one apparently the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Port-au-Prince military airfield...
...Pentagon reported that Lance Corporal. Maurice A. Williams, 21, died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot while aboard the U.S.S. Nashville, docked in Puerto Rico after leaving Haiti Monday. His was the second U.S. suicide in Operation Uphold Democracy, which has produced no other fatalities...
...hour period in a big-city emergency room (Chicago again), and it's probably the most realistic fictional treatment of the medical profession TV has ever presented. The pace is furious, the narrative jagged and unsettling. Cases are wheeled in and out -- a severed hand, a gunshot wound, a child who has swallowed a key -- and while some are followed to a conclusion of sorts, others disappear without a trace. Yet the episode, directed by Rod Holcomb, is not just a cinema-verite jumble. The characters are fleshed out in a few deft strokes -- one doctor (Anthony Edwards) is being...