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...biographies, though after her death in 1980 the gates opened. One former Orwell girlfriend told Taylor he was the eighth biographer to approach her. There have been at least as many Orwell detractors. Hitchens spends his entire book ably rescuing the author from critics both left (E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams) and right (T.S. Eliot, Norman Podhoretz) who felt he slighted their causes or supported things - like virulent anti-communism - that he didn't. Hitchens has a more difficult time explaining away the list of 35 "crypto-communists" Orwell gave to British intelligence in 1948; the defense that...
...years, Raymond Hilson thought the infection that left him disfigured was just a stroke of very bad luck. Today he thinks it could have been worse. A school-bus driver from Colfax, Wis., Hilson, now 73, underwent heart-bypass surgery in 1994 at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire. At first the procedure seemed to have gone well. But Hilson contracted a severe staph infection. To treat it, doctors "kept cutting back the flesh and bone," he recalls, until his entire sternum was removed, leaving his beating heart visible just under the skin...
That's why Raymond Hilson didn't know about the $200,000 settlement that Kaiser paid in 1992 to Richard Lord and his family for the loss of his wife Eleanor, who, according to the California investigation, bled to death while in McEnany's care. If Hilson had known more, he says, he would have gone elsewhere. Learning the surgeon's history has made him see things in a different light. Strange as it may sound, he says, "I feel lucky to be a survivor." --By Leslie Berestein/Los Angeles
While Survivalink was on track to sell $19 million worth of AEDS in 2001, Cardiac sales in 2002 more than doubled, to $39 million. Though precise industry numbers are elusive, Cardiac controls 15% to 25% of the market. "We're small and nimble," says president and CEO Raymond Cohen...
Another member of the faculty who was suspected to have communist associations was Harvard Business School (HBS) Assistant Professor Raymond S. Ginger...