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...seemed almost untouchable, able to slough off political barbs and even an assassin's bullet. His luck had grown so legendary that it was tempting to believe he would again beat the odds, that the polyp in his bowel would be found benign. But last week Dr. Steven Rosenberg, the chief of surgery at the National Institute of Cancer, reminded the nation in a single chilling sentence that Ronald Reagan is a vulnerable human after all. "The President," stated the doctor, "has cancer...
...fall. A little more than four years ago, he led his people to the brink of freedom, to a sense that their dream of an independent state was finally within reach. At the time of his death, many despaired of the possibility of anyone taking them out of the slough in which they were stuck--harassed by Israeli soldiers, threatened by Israeli attacks, vulnerable to Palestinian gang rule and sinking into privation. Palestinians direct most of their outrage at Israel and the government of Ariel Sharon, but their current condition is also the product of a phenomenal failure of Palestinian...
...seasons (available on DVD) introduced us to the dreary cubicles of the Wernham Hogg paper company in Slough, England, through the framing device of a BBC documentary. The finale revisits the characters three years later to find that receptionist Dawn (Lucy Davis), who previously rejected Tim's last-minute confession of love for fear of upsetting her life plans, has moved with her lunkish fiancé to Florida. (The drudgery of routine, and the terror of changing it, is the show's constant theme.) Meanwhile, the power-hungry pip-squeak Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) is now office manager, having replaced the boorish...
...want to be known as the place that stuck him in the hospital. I'm trying to slough it all off on the Big Mac and French fries." SCOTT MCCLARD, owner of McClard's, Bill Clinton's favorite barbecue joint in Hot Springs, Ark., after the President's clogged arteries led to his heart-bypass operation...
...want to be known as the place that stuck him in the hospital. I'm trying to slough it all off on the Big Mac and French fries." SCOTT MCCLARD, owner of McClard's, Bill Clinton's favorite barbecue joint in Hot Springs, Arkansas, after the former President's clogged arteries led to his hospitalization for a heart-bypass operation...