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...excitement at the new year empowers us to resolve to correct our failings from the previous one. We will eat less, drink less, swear less and work harder, all to honor the turning of the year. I imagine some of these resolution are successful, at least until exam period, or so. But then we return to our old vices, only to swear them off again come next year...
Many of Huggins' patients continue to swear by his treatments. Kenneth Lay, chairman of Enron Corp. in Houston, and his wife Linda had their amalgam fillings removed at the Huggins Center in 1991. Her chronic fatigue disappeared, as did an unexplained numbness he was experiencing. "I know what his critics say," comments Lay, "but I'm convinced that he does a lot of good for a lot of people...
Cynics suggest the eventual formula can only cloak a de facto partition, but Izetbegovic and the U.S. State Department swear they will never agree to any such deal. To create a true state composed of two (or maybe eventually three, given the abiding tensions between Muslims and Croats) discrete and often hostile parts, however, ranks not far below the difficulty Christian theologians have faced in reconciling the idea of one God with the Holy Trinity. Holbrooke provides one hint of potential resolution: "Given the lessons of history, Bosnia is not likely ever to have a strong central government. A loose...
...swear I almost had a breakdown. Johnny Carson is sitting a little behind you when you're up there performing. So while another performer is on, you can see the host getting his thoughts together. For some odd reason, I got up there and I was doing my act, working really hard, and then this little corner section of mind piped up and I started thinking, 'I wonder if Johnny likes me.' It just goes to show what kind of a bonehead I am. It will probably take years of therapy to get over...
...initial solo of the first movement may irritate those who swear undying allegiance to the French school of the oboe, but one must forgive the Vienna Philharmonic for playing on Mahlerian "period instruments...