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Thomas J. Mundy Jr., Suffolk County assistant district attorney, has also charged Easterling with assault and battery with a deadly weapon in the stabbing of Thomas J. Lincoln...
Though adaptive responses keep the body running for a while, even for months if some food and water are available, prolonged starvation eventually disrupts vital processes. Says Dr. Buford Nichols Jr. of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine: "You keep falling back, like a military withdrawal, but finally the body just collapses." Adds Dr. Myron Winick of New York City's Columbia University Institute of Nutrition: "Victims of starvation have to adapt. But once they do, they have a very small margin for error." Death comes in many ways. The intestinal walls become damaged; severe and constant diarrhea...
...trend that invites such inquiries has been developing for quite a while. It had started well before it was dramatized in the memorable gymnastics of Sammy Davis Jr. flinging his little arms about Richard Nixon. Franklin Roosevelt, in fact, enlisted Playwright Robert Sherwood as a ghost, and subsequent Presidents increasingly turned to theatrical artisans for help, especially after TV got big. By the 1970s the political scene seemed so stagey that Anthropologist Edmund Carpenter was moved to say that "the White House is now essentially a TV performance." He exaggerated, but not by much...
Thomas J. Mundy Jr., Suffolk County assistant district attorney, said the defendants cooperated with prostitues who attempted to rob Charles Kaye '77, a teammate of Puopolo's, by "creating confusion and commotion to allow (the prostitutes) to escape...
Irene Baker, describing the politics of Stepson Howard Baker Jr., Senate minority leader: "Like the Tennessee River, he flows right down the middle...