Word: seemly
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...people onboard the City of New Orleans, some 120 were injured and 11 perished, including Dowe and Bonnin. For those two, the song's words "halfway home, we'll be there by mornin'" seem particularly heartbreaking. With Dowe died the excitement of a single mom eager to graduate from college in December. Her son turns two in May and cries for his mother. With Bonnin ended a stunning miracle: after six years of prayer and abjuring chemotherapy, she discovered three weeks ago that her non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was in remission. "After she'd come this far, it didn...
...Clinton Administration goes that far. But Russia's problems seem so vast and impervious to foreign help that the forward momentum has drained out of its Russia policy. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, its chief architect, now advises "strategic patience." Republicans, enthused by polls that show growing discomfort with Clinton's leadership in foreign affairs, are hoping to draw blood from the Administration's evident lack of a Russia policy. An added incentive: Al Gore will be the Administration's point man in talks with Primakov...
...OCCUPATION: tall German supermodel BEST PUNCH: Used recently rehabbed Moss as the prime example of a group of models who don't take their jobs seriously enough and seem to spend more energy on partying than posing...
...this were not a Gail Godwin novel, the reader's answer might be a rapid affirmative. For Margaret does display some narrative traits that seem to demand an ironic double take. She has the habit, for example, of quoting everyone else's fulsome praise of her: "Oh, Margaret, what a great, great story... You say such wise things, Margaret...You're an extraordinary young woman, Margaret." Isn't Margaret a wee bit full of herself? And what to make of this rector's loving inventories of the riches of her church, "the Elsa Van Wyck Memorial Ciborium with...
HAPPY HEARTS The antidepressant Zoloft may be good for the heart as well as the soul. A preliminary report suggests that Zoloft thins blood in depressed patients. That's especially helpful because depressed folks seem to have blood platelets that clump together more readily--a major risk factor for heart attack. Indeed, after taking Zoloft for six weeks, patients ended up with platelets comparable to those of folks with no sign of the blues...