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In 1967, inspired by a gift from a dying patient and armed with an indomitable determination, Dame Cicely opened St. Christopher's, the world's first modern hospice. In doing so, she changed the impersonal, technocratic approach to death that since World War II has become endemic in overwhelmed Western...
In 1984, through the skillful negotiating tactics of Mondale's point man on the issue, Robert Beckel, the Jackson factor was effectively neutralized. The result was that Mondale got little in the way of fervent support from Jackson and his followers, but more importantly in the eyes of the Mondale...
According to a variety of experts on Central America, the means by which Arias pulled off the dramatic agreement reveal his talents as a skillful negotiator. They add that Arias' pragmatic idealism is in many ways reminiscent of John F. Kennedy '40, a man whom Arias has chosen as a...
Of course, this turnaround is ominous to conservatives, who fear that Reagan has become senile in his old age and is no match for the skillful Gorbachev. The new reforms, they argue, mask Gorbachev's plan to revive the stagnant Soviet economy and rival our technological capability. What they fail...
"It's a very skillful reduction of [the poem]," said Helen H. Vendler, Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language. "The essence of it is kept and one feels the interplay between one's dead friends and oneself and that is what the poem is about."