Word: rogerism
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...nurse calling me about this patient was a good one, but she was nervous. The patient was a well-groomed, 62-year-old tennis player who had given huge sums to the hospital's building campaign. Roger was young and active for a hip fracture; male patients don't usually get them just by falling. He saw his doctor regularly and was healthy. He was, in fact, a friend of my family. His hip surgery had gone very well, but here he was on the second post-op day, going - as we say in hospitals - down the tubes. We know...
...never met him after that but he had been on our minds recently. David, Roger Waters and I were all moved by Tom Stoppard's new play Rock 'n' Roll, which in part deals with Syd as a fabulous young man and his transformation. It's the transformation people talk about now, but what I most remember is his brilliance. Shine on indeed...
...Other Harvard academics who have signed the petition include Divinity School Dean William A. Graham; Meyer Professor of Middle East History E. Roger Owen; Jacqueline Bhabha, the executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies; and Emran Qureshi, who is a fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School...
...outskirts of London Sunday, some 13,800 spectators watched the world’s top ranked male tennis player, Roger Federer, defeat world #2 Rafael Nadal to win his fourth consecutive Wimbledon title...
...Think Roger Clemens with the Lexington Legends or José Canseco with the San Diego Surf Dawgs—the match was a minor league baseball game, only a different sport...