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...Chandra Levy was - I mean, is- not a child, but a 24-year-old woman: her parents' child in any case. They must bear the added mystery of her relationship (whatever that was) with the Congressman - a smear of prurient Washington intern-scandal. Evil, which can be so crummy and ordinary, always enjoys a tabloid touch. If it were not for the business about the Congressman, Gary Condit of California - made more titillating by his evasiveness - Chandra would have disappeared from the newspapers almost as abruptly as she vanished from her Washington apartment...
...Probably not. But that's the sort of schedule endured every day by countless medical residents (doctors in their first years out of medical school). Starting with the intern year, new doctors spend an average 105 hours a week on the job, a timetable that leaves physicians totally exhausted - and patients vulnerable to unintentional medical mistakes...
...sickness and "good friend" struck at about the same time. New Yorkers are both practical (grateful to the mayor for reviving the city) and romantic (a man looking the Grim Reaper in the eye should be allowed a second chance at happiness). It helped that Nathan wasn't an intern, that she was taking him in sickness, not in health, and that the mayor was following the first rule of civilized divorce: dwell not on your ex's faults as a spouse but on her virtues as a parent. Back then he praised Hanover as "a wonderful mother...
...sickness and "good friend" struck at about the same time. New Yorkers are both practical (grateful to the mayor for reviving the city) and romantic (a man looking the Grim Reaper in the eye should be allowed a second chance at happiness). It helped that Nathan wasn't an intern, that she was taking him in sickness, not in health, and that the mayor was following the first rule of civilized divorce: dwell not on your ex's faults as a spouse but on her virtues as a parent. Back then he praised Hanover as "a wonderful mother...
...Bill Clinton, of course, was Niagara itself. He drenched the American people with an incredible flow of questions/dilemmas/soap operas about himself, his wife, his intern-geisha, his midnight pardons. The Music Man managed to turn even something as banal as the cost of his postpresidential office space into an outraged debate. The narcissist in the information age: "Enough about me. What do YOU think...