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...firm every day. They can't imagine life any other way. (Forget about that foundation. Billionaires set those up. ) I used to think these individuals were just very risk-averse people who weren't entrepreneurial enough to take a risk and try and make money without saying "Yes, sir" every day. But with big banks merging left and right these days and entire groups getting cut with the flick of a CEO's pen, landing a job at a bank won't guarantee you anything but a lot of work...
...doctor. The judges appeared last week to be leaning toward the grim conclusion that the doctors' plan is illegal, possibly amounting to criminal assault and manslaughter, because it would violate the fundamental prohibition against the deliberate taking of a life, even to save another. One of the justices, Sir Alan Ward, who had been up until 3 a.m. the previous night pondering the case, suggested that the hospital was asking the court to "save Jodie but murder Mary...
...turns 26 the day before the Games start--said he was honored to meet "Monsieur Bannister" and said Bannister's 3:59.4 time on a cinder track in 1954 was the equivalent of about 3:42 today, or a meter or so ahead of his own Rome record. Sir Roger chuckled and thanked...
Apart from cinder tracks turning synthetic, training has changed a little since Sir Roger's day. While he packed his into half-hour sessions of 440-yd. repetitions, El Guerrouj reels out a total of 5 hr. a day at a high-altitude camp at Ifrane, in Morocco's Atlas Mountains, wearing to exhaustion a series of rabbits that try to keep up with him. His coach, Abdelkader Kada, has said, "He needs a coach to tell him he is doing too much, not too little...
...into white society. The members of this "stolen generation" were not told their parents' names, and most would never see their mothers again. This odious experiment was not abandoned until 1970 and did not become general public knowledge until 1997, when a report on it, "Bringing Them Home," by Sir Ronald Wilson, caused national outrage...