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...when his brother died, he began his battle to inherit the baronetcy. As the nearest male relative, he seemed entitled to press the claim. But a cousin, 40-year-old John Forbes-Sem-pill, contested the succession, asserting that he was the rightful heir because Sir Ewan had been registered as female at birth and females cannot inherit baronetcies. "My client," Sir Ewan's counsel retorted, "has been male since birth. He was wrongly registered as a female." Earlier this year, an Edinburgh court accepted Sir Ewan's arguments, and last week Home Secretary James Callaghan settled...
...martinet in this regard: You do make a contract with your patient, and you have a sem-i professional relationship, insofar as you have a commitment. I also very much believe in activism--in getting the case-aide and patient to talk to the doctors, in discussing getting medication lowered if the patient thinks it's too high; in relating to the ward personnel, the nurses and attendants, and trying to learn from them even if one does not take everything they say at face value...
...other words use these facilities just as you would use your medical facilities at home." This system has, for the most part, been successful; there are now many more hours spent by staff physicans on appointments than in the walk-in clinic. Some doctors, however, sem to prefer the clinic arrangement, and patients have not been thoroughly cooperative; about 20 per cent of the appointments for the special visits of dermatologists are not kept, for example...
...virtue of this head start, "Fern Sem," now the Emma Willard School, is the oldest academic girls' school in the U.S. It is still as progressively rigorous as in the days of its no-frills founder. "No deb balls for us," says Principal William Dietel, 37. "The parents want their children to have a superior education. They don't want it all gummed up with manners...
...KNYGHT was ther, and he was war and wys Who hadde him worde from nygh apothecaries That thogh the clerkes worthy al did sem Hir lechoury hadde longe in proces been. The knyght then in a loude tonge rendred That al by lak of vertu was engendred, And he could mak swyft remedie with powre By shortenyng hir synnyng tyme an houre...