Word: madnesses
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...weapons of destruction, lest our own self-induced fears further upset our mental balance . . . Let us deal with our own massive sins and errors . . . and have the courage to speak up ... against the methodology of barbarism to which we are now committed. If as a nation we have become mad, it is time for the world to take note of that madness...
...medium in which all of her other interests and talents come to fruition. Born in Saco, Maine to a nurse and a fisherman, Chadbourne always loved music and storytelling. She laughs, remembering, “I was given piano lessons from the age of five, and I was always mad about stories. Funny how the thing you love when you are little are the things that reassert themselves when you grow up.” Through time and experience, her interests focused on Irish music and storytelling in particular. She recalls when she realized how important Irish stories would...
...spends almost twice as much in health care as the next most costly nation, and our system is not even close to the best on earth. The assertion that making health care a human right isn't feasible - isn't affordable - nearly makes me mad. It's just not true; in fact, we are the only developed Western country that fails to view health care as a human right. Leadership for change must come from the President and Congress. Without the promise of health care for all, we aren't likely to muster the energy and political will we need...
...That was on a Thursday morning at 10 a.m. The first dose was given 60 hours later, on Saturday night at 10 p.m. "Nothing I could do, nothing I did, nothing I could think of made any difference," Berwick said in a speech to colleagues. "It nearly drove me mad." One medication was discontinued by a physician's order on the first day of admission and yet was brought by a nurse every single evening for 14 days straight. "No day passed--not one--without a medication error," Berwick remembers. "Most weren't serious, but they scared us." Drugs that...
...convince all of the seniors who had transferred since freshmen year that they were supposed to eat in Dudley House with all the stinky lesbians with blue hair, but unfortunately most people we know at this school have learned to generally ignore everything we say. While we grubbed mad Chickwiches and watched hordes of d-bags pretend that they were “still tight with Domna after all these years,” we got to thinking about our four years at this place. Looking at the cornucopia of illustrious busts lining the walls and the cornucopia of intolerable...