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...Oklahoman introduces diversity to a slate that has white men from Texas and Louisiana in the top three spots. And Republicans also hope that the football star turned Baptist minister who speaks about "politics of the human heart" will transform the party's image from preachy and vindictive to patient and caressing. Says Florida Congressman Bill McCollum of Watts: "He just exudes, 'I care...
...training" who accompanies her father, a logger, when he hunts for food in northern Minnesota, reports that "my favorite part is taking time to wait and see what you're hunting for. Sometimes you have to wait a long time. You have to be quiet. You have to be patient." This from an eight-year...
...faces a series of serious criminal charges stemming from his years of authoritarian rule. A continued stay in the hospital had obviously helped the General pursue his strategy of fight and delay, but no more: His next British court date is set for December 11. For the now-well patient, it may be time -- if not to open all the dossiers -- at least to open all the windows and welcome in that London...
...danger of using a virus, as the New York team does, may be infection. No such problem has arisen so far. Another possibility: you might not be able to repeat the procedure, because the patient's body may have developed an immunity to the virus that was used the first time. Rosengart expects it will be possible in the future to do repeat procedures simply by using a different strain of the virus...
Meantime, one oscillates between extremes of depression and gratitude--gratitude being the only decent thing a patient can feel at medicine's largesse. Of course one slides back and forth through a middle range of buoyancy and irritability. A few weeks ago, I went to the Harvard Club and cleared out the squash locker that I had used twice a week for more than 20 years. An aging yuppie's lament: no more squash. I was depressed until it began to seem funny, as if John O'Hara had written that moment of my life...