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...want you to die either." He administers Narcan, a heroin antidote. An hour later, the patient regains his strength and wants to leave before the police come. He gets angry when a nurse tells him his clothes were cut to pieces. She tries to hide her annoyance. "You understand, sir, that our first priority was saving your life...
...went abroad again, in pursuit of a Ph.D. at Oxford, and if there is an invisible monastery in his life, a spiritual refuge, it is there. At the Bodleian Library he worked in a room containing a first edition of Don Quixote, shelved in the same spot where Sir Thomas Bodley, the founder, placed it in 1605. "It gave me a sense of how high I loomed in the large scale of scholarship, and that's good for a young graduate student." He became a protege of Dame Helen Gardner, the eminent Donne scholar, who also had a keen sense...
...Semite, have had appalling political consequences. Others, like the work of the fictional bard Ossian and the skull of Piltdown man, have had deep cultural ones. Others still, like the phony mermaids that turned up in the cabinets of Renaissance collectors and the fraudulent photographs of fairies that deceived Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, may not have mattered greatly but retain a certain fascination as souvenirs of human credulity...
...focused on forgery and its ramifications. Hence the interest of "Fake? The Art of Deception," a sprawling and overcrowded array of more than 600 objects, on view at the British Museum. "We are all emotionally involved with fakes; nobody wishes to be associated with them," the museum's director, Sir David Wilson, sagaciously remarks in the catalog. "Fortunately, most of the worst errors are our own, the result of nearly 2 1/2 centuries of collecting." The reluctance to fess up may account for the absence from this show of some of the real lulus of American public collections, such...
B.A.T. was forced to sell Saks as well as the Chicago-based Marshall Field's chain as part of a strategy to fend off a hostile takeover bid led by Sir James Goldsmith, the Anglo-French raider. In an abrupt turnaround early last week, the takeover artist said he would drop his pursuit of B.A.T. But with the Saks sale already in motion and bids running high, the British company went through with the transaction two days later...