Word: hearses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A White House aide rarely gets to write his own job description, but that's what Roger Porter did back in 1980. While teaching government at Harvard, Porter wrote Presidential Decision Making, a book describing a system in which the President designates "honest brokers." These senior aides, unlike Cabinet officers...
A doctor's words may speak louder than actions, but every patient hears them differently, and doctors end up feeling they cannot win. When Cincinnati receptionist Doris Roetting had a mastectomy in the fall of 1987, her surgeon assured her that she was recuperating nicely. Her oncologist, however, was a...
Roe itself was a case that had to be argued twice before a decision was announced. The court hears arguments in about 150 cases each term, and since 1977 has held over at least one case each year for reargument the following term.
Kevin Costner is the man of the moment and a star out of his time. What other actor would think to achieve rampant movie fame by playing a Soviet spy and two baseball fanatics? For Costner, though, the improbable risk was a good career move. As Eliot Ness in The...
In China the forces for transformation bubble up from below, while in the Soviet Union they are marshaled from above. But in both cases there is recognition that the system needs a drastic overhaul. -- How far will China's hard-liners go to keep the lid on discontent? -- Presiding over...