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Increasingly, it’s hard to mistake present-day Riverside for a time when, during busy periods, my grandfather’s bedside manner was said to be practiced at the side of his own mattress. My relatives, for one, have long since left that original two-story house. I have personally witnessed snapshots of the past seven years of the hospital’s growth—enough, at the very least, to see it thrillingly renamed the Dr. Pablo O. Torre Sr. Memorial Hospital, in honor of its founder...
...Harvard. Cambridge. When I see that you are aligned and ready I will start you in the following manner ‘Attention, GO.’ Get ready please.” We readied ourselves, knowing that the only chance we had would be to run with Cambridge level off the start and try to fluster them into rowing with bad rhythm; if we let Cambridge get a lead, they were a talented and mature enough crew to pull away for good...
Goodwin alleged that she was denied advancement because of her race and the “sexy” manner in which she dressed. She said that since she earned her Master of Library Science degree from Simmons College in 1999, she had applied for 16 professional librarian positions at Harvard but received only two interviews and no job offers...
...everywhere: in the look and some of the scenes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (inspired by The Seventh Seal), in the horror film The Last House on the Left (a remake of The Virgin Spring) and any number of Woody Allen films, including Interiors (in the manner of Cries and Whispers). On Broadway, Stephen Sondheim transposed the domestic deceptions of Smiles of a Summer Night into A Little Night Music...
...gaffe in May that Mexicans do jobs in the U.S. that "not even blacks want." The Rev. Jesse Jackson demanded a recall of the "Sambo-type" images. But a rep at the Mexican embassy insisted the stamps are misunderstood: "Speedy Gonzlez has never been interpreted in a racial manner" in Mexico...