Word: obstetrician
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Most Exotic Accent: A tie, between the obscure one used by Robin Williams as an obstetrician in Nine Months and the Italianate vocalizing of Meryl Streep as the lonely wife romanced by Clint Eastwood in The Bridges of Madison County...
...underway, pledging to "set the record straight." To Senators probing his views on abortion, he said: "I am a doctor who delivers babies." Foster also apologized to the Labor and Human Resources Committee for initially understating the number of abortions he had performed during his 40 years as an obstetrician, but said it was an "honest mistake" made without a complete review of the records. "There was never any intent to deceive," he said. "I had no reason to do so." Foster promised to lead a national campaign against teen pregnancies if confirmed. Does he have a chance? Even...
...Senate takes up thenomination of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon General, President Clinton has launched an intensive effort to bolster the Tennessee physician's chances. Sidestepping conservative broadsides about Foster's abortion record, Clinton today declared the 61-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist a "pro-life, pro-choice doctor." Foster will testify Tuesday before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who has threatened to block a full Senate vote on the controversial nomination, said the GOP will hammer at the Administration's belated disclosures that Foster had supervised hundreds of abortions. "This is about telling...
...more than a few lone crazies have answered the call to arms. Boldly, and calmly, some people are advocating murder as well as arson and bombing to drive abortion providers out of business. "More violence is inevitable, and it is righteous," says C. Roy McMillan, a Mississippi activist whose obstetrician wife once performed abortions. "It wouldn't bother me if every abortionist in the country today fell dead from a bullet...
...founding partner of Merrill Lynch, an unlikely poet, that's a condition he shared with Wallace Stevens the insurance executive and William Carlos Williams the obstetrician; American poetry has a healthy tradition of culling its favorite sons and daughters from unexpected niches. Merrill attended Amherst College, but his education was interrupted by a year of military service in Europe in 1944. A mere World War, though, and the tumultuous love affairs he also endured, were hardly sufficient to deflect his sense of purpose. Year by year, with ferocious industry, he added to his glittering shelf of books...