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Northeastern (6-6-3, 2-4-3 Hockey East) had to rally from a 2-1 deficit against Dartmouth (2-6-0, 1-3-0) to avoid a mild upset at Hanover...
...reassuring performance, but it wasn't exactly the straight story. In fact, Cheney had suffered what his doctors belatedly described as a mild heart attack, though Bush almost certainly didn't know that when he appeared before the cameras. Cheney had just undergone a surgical procedure to insert a stent, a steel mesh cylinder that expands to pry open a clogged artery. A Bush aide, Dan Bartlett, said later that Bush knew the procedure had taken place but did not tell the public because he did not feel equipped to discuss it. And anyway, he wanted to focus...
...test for the cardiac enzymes given off by a damaged heart muscle showed that Cheney's "enzyme levels were slightly elevated." Anyone who is not a cardiologist might suppose he was just passing on an innocuous test result. What he was actually offering was medical jargon that signifies a mild heart attack. Emphasis on mild--Cheney's episode qualified as a heart attack only under a stringent new definition adopted by the American Heart Association about a year ago. All the same, 2 1/2 hours later Wasserman had to reappear to speak the plain English words: "a very slight heart...
...they did not at first understand that what he had suffered qualified as a heart attack. Communications director Hughes says she also did not understand until she asked the hospital's p.r. director to explain the meaning of the elevated enzyme levels. Once she realized that this signaled a mild heart attack, she says, she immediately told the hospital that the doctors should go before the press again to say so. "One of the networks was still reporting that he had not had a heart attack," says Hughes. "I was adamant that it needed to be corrected...
...passage. After the balloon was deflated, the metal mesh of the stent was left in place to keep the artery open. During this procedure the results from Cheney's second blood test became available. It showed a slight increase in the cardiac enzymes, indicating that Cheney had suffered a mild heart attack after...