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...patient. There’s a Christmas story buried in this column, albeit a warped and disturbing and wholly abstract one—a postmodern sketch that differs a fair amount from Frosty, Rudolph and other, more familiar tales. This one involves lawsuits, a beating and Joseph Heller. And Harvard football...
...Council in Copenhagen last week, the 15 leaders of E.U. governments decided that Washington's version of boldness wasn't called for and that Turkey would have to wait until December 2004 to learn whether its reforms meet the E.U.'s criteria for membership. Turkey will have to be patient, but it now seems on track to eventually win the prize it seeks. "There was a general meeting of the minds that the U.S. and Turkey had overplayed their hands," according to a Danish official. And European leaders couldn't help but stick it to the uppity Yanks...
...Unlike many other vaccines, smallpox contains live virus. A doctor or nurse takes a pronged instrument, dips it into the virus and gives the patient several pricks, usually on the upper arm, with the contaminated prongs. The result is a circular sore, which initially becomes filled with pus and eventually drains and scabs over. Within two weeks, the sore is gone and only a small scar remains. During the time that the sore is infected, the patient is contagious to others and should keep the vaccination site covered. Some people will experience soreness, fever, head and body aches after...
...that Rachel would lead FM. She has always been a clever and talented writer. One of her stories, on irony, was assigned reading for a Harvard class (Leo Damrosch’s “Wit and Humor”). Over the year she has grown into being a patient but merciless editor, allergic to bullshit, her Vermont upbringing clearly supplying her with the ideal editor’s mix of outward bucolity covering a willingness to use firearms. And only recently have we discovered her fine public speaking skills. Rachel is great. I hope that the people she works...
...even though the Bush Administration now has in its hands a document it had preemptively denounced as a pack of lies, it is suddenly warning against hasty conclusions. "The thing to do is to not prejudge it, be patient and expect that it will take days and weeks probably to go over, and come to some judgments about it, said arch-hawk Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld. It's not as if the document had blindsided Washington - the table of contents, already leaked to the media by U.S. officials on Monday despite the priority supposedly given to maintaining the declaration...