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...Monrad Professor of Economics Martin L. Weitzman, who did not sign the letter, said that Rudenstine should remain unswayed by this most recent plea...
...above. This isn't a plea for sympathy; along with their self-doubt, journalists are given to insufferable vanity and sanctimony. And if you're like most Americans, you despise them for it. But look a little closer, and see the newsreader's eyes widen when the TelePrompTer starts to stutter, or see the slight tremble in the hand that holds the notepad when the survivors tell the reporter to mind his own damn business. Look a little closer, and then the jig is up. Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: this...
...cite among the few successes of the FBI the conviction of Mob boss John Gotti and the arrest of Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski. If it had not been for a plea bargain with mass murderer Sammy ("the Bull") Gravano in exchange for his testimony, Gotti would probably still be the "Teflon Don." If Kaczynski's brother had not gone to the FBI with incriminating evidence, the Unabomber suspect might still be living in his Montana cabin. ROBERT J. QUIRK Sarasota...
...song, Simple, offers up a mix of blues harmonica and funky guitar. Her topics are very coffeehouse--there's a pro-tree song--but there's also a sharp cover of Come As You Are that remakes Kurt Cobain's anguished alternative-rock classic into a plaintive, acoustic plea for self-acceptance. At their best, Love and Indigo Girls sidestep trends and go straight to the heart...
...Haven, Conn., for treatment of what the resident gynecologist thought was a ruptured tubal pregnancy. An abdominal incision that spattered the operating room with Hansen's blood proved him wrong. By chance, Nuland was checking on two patients at St. Raphael's when the loudspeaker crackled an urgent plea--"part outcry for help and part call to arms"--for any general surgeon to go to the operating room. With Hansen on the verge of death, Nuland took charge and located the trouble: an aneurysm of the splenetic artery. In chilling but mesmerizing detail, he explains how he slowed, then stopped...