Word: jeffreys
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...Jeffrey Archer is a writer of beach books (Kane & Abel; First Among Equals) who was once the youngest member of the House of Commons, and is now deputy chairman of Britain's Conservative Party. As writerly credentials go, these are well up on the customary "shipped out on a tramp steamer" and "parachuted into occupied France...
Some of that evidence has been provided by Cardiologist Jeffrey Isner of the New England Medical Center in Boston, who suspects that heart damage from cocaine occurs more often than most specialists believe, partly because doctors seldom ask heart patients if they have used drugs. "There are still superb cardiologists," says Isner, "who are surprised to find out that cocaine can cause a lethal cardiac event." In a paper published last October in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, Isner reported on seven people, ages 20 to 37, who used cocaine shortly before suffering apparent heart attacks...
Adding to the hilarity is the dean of students, Mr. Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), who has decided that Ferris, the darling of his school, has made a fool of him one too many times. Rooney is modeled on a mixture of Inspector Clouseau and his boss, who, as you may remember, in one movie aspired to kill his clueless detective (you even get to hear a refrain of the Pink Panther theme...
...undefeated freshman heavies and the junior varsity crew will race in the Ladies Challenge Cup, the second most important contest of the regatta at Henley-on-Thames, said Jeffrey Clay, assistant freshman coach...
...dispersion of English is both a cause and an effect of pop's global reach, but American pop commodities are also successful abroad because they work. Blue jeans are well designed and rugged. Most Hollywood filmmaking is technically impeccable. "American TV is extraordinarily beguiling to the Poles," says Sociologist Jeffrey Goldfarb, who lived in Warsaw for 18 months, "for the technical quality alone...