Word: paso
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...medical jargon) can become slightly tedious. The analogies and comparisons between tennis, medicine and life sometimes seem amazingly twisted and contrived, and sometimes annoyingly simple. To truly enjoy the book you will have to find it in your heart to forgive the occasional trite phrase, such as "El Paso receded from view, and with it his hopes and dreams." It may take a few chapters, or longer, to accept the fact that, yes, tennis really is being used to deal with this hugely serious subject...
...Tennis Partner (HarperCollins; 345 pages; $25) begins, it finds Verghese moving with his wife and two sons to El Paso, Texas, a frontera culture whose dusty glamour seduces this connoisseur of border crossings. But as he separates from his wife, Verghese begins to anchor himself more and more through his regular tennis games with a charismatic Australian medical student of his called David. Only slowly does he realize that his tennis coach, student and friend is, like many doctors (he informs us), caught in a cycle of drug dependency...
...Posse Comitatus Act. But in the 1980s, in response to a growing drug problem on the border, the law was loosened to allow military units to help the U.S. Border Patrol catch drug smugglers. A Department of Defense entity called Joint Task Force Six, based in El Paso, Texas, has since 1989 coordinated 3,300 missions on the border; 746 of them involved listening or observation posts like the one Banuelos and three other Marines established several days before Hernandez was shot...
...centered manager--"He regards anyone who is not totally for him as the enemy," says an insider--Scott has always been a man in a hurry. In 1987 he and Richard Rainwater, a Fort Worth, Texas, billionaire, each invested $125,000 in a pair of struggling hospitals in El Paso, Texas. That became the seed for Columbia's present holdings of 1,062 hospitals, outpatient surgical centers and home-health-care centers in 36 states, England, Switzerland and Spain...
...Scott's hubris may have cost him his empire. Amid signs of growing trouble at Columbia, he continued to pursue business as usual. In fact, the business was going badly askew. The problems worsened in March when agents descended on Columbia hospitals in El Paso, scooping up medical files by the truckload. Among other things, the feds sought evidence that Columbia, which treats some 125,000 patients a day, had overcharged Medicare by millions of dollars. Two weeks ago, federal agents seized documents from 31 Columbia locations in six states (Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Utah). By last...