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...Strauss Freudenberg, 91, is no less a legend than Fort Sumpter or Rainbow Row, though she arrived in Charleston in 1940, a humble immigrant from Hannover, Germany. Trained as a physical therapist, she established a private practice and worked at clinics and hospitals. In 1957 at the city's Roper Hospital, a doctor on rounds couldn't communicate with a critically ill Dutch sailor and enlisted her as a translator. The sailor didn't understand Freudenberg's German any better than he did the doctor's English. Alarmed by the incident, Freudenberg went on local radio and television and appealed...
...turn out or not. During the 20 months from the beginning of 1973 until Richard Nixon resigned in August 1974, 128 polls asked Americans whether they thought the President should leave office. But in the mere nine months since the Lewinsky scandal broke, according to Don Ferree of the Roper Center, pollsters have asked that question more than 325 times. A Gallup poll this month finds that nearly two-thirds of Americans want their Representatives to stick close to American public opinion when deciding on impeachment rather than do what they think is best...
...British historian Alan Bullock's early interpretation, for example, had Hitler as, among other things, a cunning, low-rent charlatan. The other great British Hitler explainer, H.R. Trevor-Roper, constructed a Fuhrer on the grand, demonic scale: a Great Bad Man theory of history. Between the poles of Bullock and Trevor-Roper, historians, psychologists and others have brought an anguished ingenuity to trying to account for the monster or, in the newest scholarly and academic literature, to dismiss the old "Hitler-centric" theories in favor of larger abstractions (the German character, Christian anti-Semitism...
...Three's Company": Jack gets hired to cater a surprise birthday party for Mr. Furley an the Regal Beagle. He decides to serve oysters on the half-shell. Just as the oysters take effect, Larry walks into the bar to find Janet, Krissy and Jack all squirming under Mrs. Roper's oversized...
...earned his way back to the kitchen table. Now "he's family," says Dunn, holding yellow roses sent by Ball after surgery. Extraordinary words in a Charleston heavy with the history she and Ball share. Even more extraordinary are the words Ball spoke to Dunn and her mother Katie Roper on a segment of Oprah never televised. "Words are not enough. But I'm sorry," he said. "I want to ask your forgiveness...