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Four nurses were supposed to be on duty, but because of staff shortages, there were often only two. Several times visitors found Brunton lying in his own excrement. He got bedsores. For two days in March, when outside temperatures were just above freezing, the heating in the Victorian pile was turned off for repairs and his temperature plummeted alarmingly. Brunton was wrapped in an insulating blanket to get warmer on his own, which he did. After six weeks in such conditions, Brunton died. The doctors and nurses who looked after him "worked heroically," says his son Paul. "But the system...
...neutral—like the disorganized lab partner that Neff remembers from high school, the Summers of today requires a rule that says you are “never to give Larry the only version of anything” lest it “disappear into the pile...
...whiff of righteousness and superiority earlier this year when I had to choose the next arts executives for this newspaper. Suddenly, it became so easy to accept my role as an arbitrator of worthiness—to judge people, to classify them. This person goes in the good pile, these 10 people go in the reject pile...
...based on a gay novel published pseudonymously on the Internet. Kwan, a specialist in soft-focus romantic doom (Rouge, Red Rose, White Rose), filmed in secret and without official clearance. The story, about city-man Handong (Hu Jun) and country-boy Lan Yu (Lu Yue), could be a ripe pile of clichE if not handled deftly, but the clarity of Kwan's view gives the affair a somber tang. "You probably don't know it, but I love you," Handong says toward the end, and Lan Yu replies, "You probably don't know it, but I love...
You’re sitting on a pile of money—about $20 billion, give or take a few billion depending on how tech stocks are holding up. It’s time for Harvard, the most prestigious university in the world, to step up to the plate...