Word: suffering
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...nail his target on anything else, anyone with an ounce of imagination is tempted to excuse it. People who flesh out the Bill-and-Monica story rather than stripping it down do not imagine that Bill Clinton will go unpunished unless Congress takes him to the woodshed. He'll suffer plenty...
...beyond the knowledge that, at some point or another, Meg Ryan will appear on screen in a twin set. When Ephron pairs the actress with Tom Hanks, the viewer can rest assured that certain unsettling events will not occur: we know, for example, that our hero won't ever suffer financially (and thus won't turn to a life of bank robbery or kidnapping); our heroine won't be left, at the end of the film, with no one to dance with but her gay best friend; and, perhaps more significantly, the fated lovers won't ever turn up earnestly...
...back to my dorm, along the way playing up the merits of both his candidates and the community they would ostensibly foster. When I asked him why community matters so much, he alluded to the many cases of suicide and depression students in the College suffer. Fair enough, but I don't think any student government could relieve academic burnout or loneliness with more forums in Harvard Hall. Nor do I think that more trips to Quincy Market with the dorm could ease a first-year's transition into university life...
...less valuable. Now, however, they just become more famous, and they get money to boot. (The only category of famous people of whom this is not yet true is journalists. David Brinkley took a big hit for becoming a spokesman for Archer Daniels Midland Co. But then pioneers often suffer when carving paths that soon become common and comfortable.) Similarly, rich folks who do ads buy themselves fame without spending their wealth. But most actual billionaires are probably as famous as they wish to be (given the special nuisances and even dangers that come from being famous for being wealthy...
When it comes to the iron in your diet, too much of a good thing can hurt you. Folks with a genetic condition called hemochromatosis absorb so much iron from their food that their body literally starts to rust from the inside out. More than 1 million Americans suffer from the disorder, although most of them don't know what they've got. Part of the reason is that hemochromatosis can masquerade as other diseases, like diabetes and arthritis. In addition, according to a series of articles in last week's Annals of Internal Medicine, most doctors still...