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Beginning with what he calls the Hypocritic Oath ("I swear by Midas, my malpractice insurance, the A.M.A..."), Berman lets nary a branch of his calling escape his splenetic pen. To the vanishing, often bungling general practitioner, he says: "Good riddance." His definition of what he believes surgeons regard as a "reasonable" fee: "All that the traffic can bear." Psychiatry, he says, has lately been "lit by rare flashes of brilliance such as transactional analysis and fornication therapy." As for pediatricians, he asks: "What kind of intellect opts to spend the better part of its professional life with diaper rash...
...next junior Senator from Pennsylvania will be only 38 when he takes the oath. He is attractive in a wholesome way; his wife and three children look swell on campaign brochures. His bloodlines are important enough for him to rate a dynastic III after his name. With experience in the House and a reputation for being bright and ambitious, he will have an edge over other freshmen Senators in competing for Capitol Hill influence and national attention...
...Bolles was to meet, or so it said on the note Bolles left on his desk. Police searched Adamson's apartment after the bombing and found equipment for and books on how to make bombs. A business partner, Robert Lettiere, another minor figure in the Phoenix underworld, said under oath later that while he and Adamson were riding around, Adamson mentioned he was going to blow up a car. He was going to blow up the car, Adamson said, "because some people don't like this guy." On June 5, Adamson was ordered to stand trial for murder. The trial...
...Nixon's resignation speech: "It was not the speech of a President who had violated his constitutional oath and duty by obstructing justice, by abusing the power of his office, by transforming the Oval Office into a mean den where perjury and low scheming became a way of life...
...kill me/ But you will never rule this land." That proud defiance is perhaps best epitomized today by Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, chief minister of the KwaZulu territorial government. Buthelezi, 49, is relentless in his condemnation of white supremacy. He has insisted that his government will not take an oath of allegiance to the South African government. In that resistance, he believes, the tribe is fighting the last Zulu...