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...Like their big-city counterparts, provincial doctors have also succumbed to political pressure to conceal information about the dangers of the virus. At a secret meeting last Wednesday overheard by a TIME reporter, Dr. Zhang Hanwei, the director of the Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital in Taiyuan, began his speech by berating the 40 or so embattled doctors gathered before him. Other regions afflicted by SARS were reporting only a 4% mortality rate. But Shanxi, then with an official tally of 82 cases and 7 deaths, was reporting an 8.5% death rate. "The government is very unsatisfied with these numbers...
...walked past Pizza Ring on Western Ave. in Cambridge, Pring-Wilson, who was talking to his fiancée on his cell phone, overheard a man in a parked car say something about him, his attorney said...
...brash artificial sources of color. Another theme Nesbitt detects is art that "invites a direct encounter," like Jim Lambie's jazzy floor of multicolored vinyl tape that follows and magnifies the pillars and doorways of a double-height gallery. In contrast, Susan Philipsz's art is meant to be overheard - a tune picked out clumsily on a piano; her own voice singing mournfully. David Cunningham's A Position Between Two Curves picks up ambient sound and builds it up through feedback until it reaches a certain pitch of loudness. Like Ceal Floyer's Bucket, which "catches" a recorded drip, this...
...takes it everywhere, who moves coatless through Minnesota winters and runs triathlons, who made a habit of correcting her science teacher--has been stung by a nasty backlash within the FBI. In early June, an associate called to say high-level FBI agents in Washington had been overheard discussing possible criminal charges against her. Some fellow agents, retired ones in particular, crucified her. Charles George, then president of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, compared her to convicted spy Robert Hanssen, calling her behavior "unthinkable" in the society newsletter; instead of going to the Russians, she went...
...SENIOR UPDATE: Markus S. Donahuge ’01 was first in line the other night for this season’s inaugural senior bar. He was overheard chanting, “Senior year—What do we want? BEER! When do we want it? BEER!” Donahuge went on and on until the manager of the Hong Kong stepped outside, flicked him off and yelled, “Get out of here, you dumb, white asshole!” Undaunted, M’Huge found himself moderately drunk by the end of the night...