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...meet the President as he went by as if they hadn't stood in the very same chamber a month before to yell at former Vice President Al Gore '69 for not inventing rules so they could protest his loss. Robert Byrd looked like he was having a stroke, though, strangely, he didn't seem upset about it. Hillary, who gained more camera time than Laura Bush, couldn't decide what to do with her face and seemed to settle on a combination smile/frown/sneeze...
...central role is being played by the Prime Minister of Japan. For now that's a politician named Yoshiro Mori who fell into the job when the previous Prime Minister, the good-natured Keizo Obuchi, unexpectedly suffered a stroke in April of last year. Five senior politicians of Obuchi's venerable Liberal Democratic Party met behind the ornate screens in Tokyo's Akasaka Prince Hotel to decide which of them would get the top job. The Gang of Five, as they are known, hurriedly picked Mori without consulting the rest of the party, much less the nation...
...business and family entanglements. These two threads came together in his furtive psychoanalysis sessions, and in the person of Tony's mother, Livia (Nancy Marchand), who arranged an attempt on his life. It ended, neatly if ambiguously, with Tony angrily confronting her in the hospital after she had a stroke...
SLEEPING SICKNESS Folks who snore and feel drowsy the next day--even after eight hours of sleep--may have problems more serious than just getting a good night's rest. A study finds that snoring sleepyheads are twice as likely to suffer a stroke as ordinary snoozers. How come? The odd sleep patterns may be a sign of sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing briefly stops throughout the night--possibly disrupting blood flow to the brain...
Sources: Good News--New England Journal of Medicine (2/15/01). Bad News--JAMA (2/14/01); American Stroke Assoc. meeting; American Journal of Cardiology (2/16/01...