Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stumbling through a filed somewhere behind the back straightaway when my stomach begins to implode. No sleep for 48 hours: none anticipated anytime soon. Tacos and unchilled Budweisers' swimming in midair. This is The Race...
...those fighting words. And Nancy Kissinger, 48, did. Last winter when she was accompanying her husband to Boston, where he was to undergo heart-bypass surgery, a pro-nuclear energy activist named Ellen Kaplan accosted the couple at Newark International Airport, baiting Henry Kissinger with the question, "Do you sleep with young boys at the Carlyle Hotel?" Quick as a flash, Nancy grabbed Kaplan's neck and said, "Do you want to get slugged?" Though unharmed, Kaplan pressed assault charges. Last week Newark Municipal Court Judge Julio Fuentes pronounced Nancy's reaction "spontaneous" and "somewhat human," then found...
Mexican Author and Diplomat Carlos Fuentes at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.: "Nationalism represents a profound value for Latin Americans simply because of the fact that our nationhood is still in question. In New York, Paris or London, no one loses sleep asking themselves whether the nation exists. In Latin America you can wake up and find that the nation s no longer there, usurped by a military junta, a multinational corporation or an American ambassador surrounded by a jevy of technical advisers. That the junta in Buenos Aires, acting under the impression that it had been given the green...
During Harvard's review of the complaint, a B.U. graduate student sent a letter to Harvard administrators, changing that Walcott had pressured her to sleep with him in exchange for helping her with her poetry...
...conditioning, she says, begins with the total depletion of the residents' physical strength. "Medicine," she charges, "is the only area that doesn't recognize the need for sleep." Her book recounts the horrors of 36-hour shifts, of 30 patient interviews and examinations crammed into two hours, of fatigue so profound that during patient examinations, "I could actually shut my eyes for brief moments while I listened to the patient's heart. . . napping between beats...