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...admissions process: it now takes 15 minutes or less. Other results are harder to measure but just as significant. Robert Stambaugh admits that he felt "self-conscious and silly" during his brief stint impersonating a patient at Uniformed Services. But two years later, he drew on the experience to summon up sympathy for an obstreperous patient whose brain had been injured in a car accident. "He'd throw bedpans, pull out catheters and verbally abuse everyone," Stambaugh recalls. As the student doctor who had to repeatedly replace the catheters, he was tempted to blow his own top. "On reflection, though...
...experienced when confined in solitary, and the mutual appreciation, gratitude and respect each felt for his fellow hostages when they were penned together. As for their own fortitude, they left the marveling to others. "You just do what you have to do. You wake up every day, and you summon up the energy from somewhere," Anderson said, without dramatic effect. "And you do it day after day after...
...sure, there were some distinctly X-rated moments, especially when it was Hatch's turn to work with the raw material of Anita Hill's allegations. < More than once it seemed as though he was about to summon Long Dong Silver to appear before the Judiciary Committee in person (or worse...
...book can be said to summon up the passions of this moment, it is Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise, (Knopf; $24.95). Published last year, the 453-page popular history has become a call to arms for the anti- Columbians; it is also the book the traditional Columbus faction most loves to hate. Sale is a social historian whose research into Columbus' life and travels and the explorer's contemporary world is impressive; his narrative, especially when he joins Columbus aboard the Santa Maria, is gripping. Sale persuasively describes what it must have felt like for the explorer...
...deal? Only dreamers still hope that the Prime Minister's hard line is a negotiating gambit. Realists know better. Most skulk away depressed. Some summon the courage to strike back, as George Bush is doing...