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DIED. RACHEL GURNEY, 81, actress who portrayed the refined Lady Marjorie on the wildly popular 1970s British drama Upstairs Downstairs, which chronicled the antics of the wealthy upstairs-living Bellamy family and their downstairs-living servants...
...alternately urinating in and near the paper towel dispenser, vomiting, and resting his head in a pool of his own vomit. “This event is all about bringing the Harvard community together for a great cause,” he said as he was lifted into a gurney within Mass General Hospital. He later peed on a nurse...
...forum featured Karen Armstrong, author of various works on Islam; Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture; William Graham, Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of the History of Religion; and Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Islamic Studies...
...time the chopper landed at the hospital, Jessie had gone without blood--and thus oxygen--for 30 min. The medics put him on a gurney and took him down in an elevator four floors to Trauma Room 9, continuing CPR all the way. As doctors, nurses, aides and technicians hunched over the lifeless boy, nurse Dawn Colbert inserted an IV into his arm and began a rapid infusion of O-negative blood, the universal-donor type. Within 15 minutes, Colbert pumped nearly 1.5 liters of warmed blood into Jessie, about half the normal volume for an 80-lb. boy. Jessie...
...Eight a.m. (eastern time) approached. Computer generated animations showed the death house rooms and the leather gurney on which McVeigh would lie, to go to sleep, as if to have his appendix out - but not to wake. There was an atmosphere of subdued media circus - not satisfactorily macabre, however, since the entire performance was concealed behind a weird scrim of discretion and vagueness, none of us knowing exactly the moment when Timothy McVeigh died. His life winked out unobserved by the millions. This was capital punishment as a sort of Zen, the sound of one hand clapping...