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...that matter, any of the other risk factors that might indicate the need for a C-section. But a combination of having watched traumatic vaginal deliveries in medical school and hearing about her mother's difficult emergency caesarean experience after trying to deliver vaginally helped make up her mind. "I had a fear of going through labor and ending up with an emergency C-section anyway. I know that's rare, but I didn't want to deal with it," she says...
...consistently smart-mouthed, with more sting than the Magnetic Fields and some serious comedic variety. He puts his chameleonic quality to good use, managing to mock the sensibilities of Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, the Beach Boys, and Broadway musicals without sacrificing any part of his characteristic wit. Keeping in mind what they say about imitation and flattery, however, Green’s irreverence can only goes so far. He mimics these styles in jest but also, just slightly, in earnest. Adam Green can pretty much do it all, and on “Sixes & Sevens,” he proves...
...kind of writing that is very writerly and well crafted. I want to get out of that genre, because that’s what it is, a genre. I want to really intersect with the world. Speaking for myself, reading books has changed my life, several times, changed my mind about things, and changed the way I behave. You recognize your own behavior and your own thought patterns in a book, and you realize you must change your life.—Interview conducted, condensed, and edited by Patrick R. Chesnut.—Staff writer Patrick R. Chesnut...
...Even when he had to deal with the negative aspects of someone’s experience in the Yard, he always did it with an open mind,” Mackay-Smith said. “He wasn’t just dealing with today’s incident. He was dealing with today’s incident as part of a four-year career...
...always could see that he was actually first and foremost a scholar,” said Fitzsimmons, who began working for the Admissions Office in 1972, five years before Moses’ arrival. “He would often step back, and you could see his mind working for analogies with great literature...