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...part of a generation, an era of women who saw to it that their men were not alone, who backed up their husbands against growing old and afraid, and who never lost their sense of humor. You lose your sense of humor and you might as well cut your throat. That's Ethel: a woman of deep common sense, who finds joy in life and in the beautiful things around...
...Therapist James A. Belli, 50, says patients' response depends on how far their disease has advanced. "If the joints have not been structurally altered," says he, "the pain is almost completely eliminated." Side effects were transient and similar to those experienced by Hodgkin's patients: fatigue, sore throat and occasional diarrhea...
...says Publisher Donald Graham, 36. The responsibility was his. Defending the editorial soon became more awkward than defending the gossip item. It infuriated the paper's national desk. As for Bradlee, he disclaimed any part in the editorial and seemed to be reliving the days of Deep Throat; he had been "eyeball to eyeball" with the gossip columnist's source, who got it from "two members of the Carter family-the personal family." Let them sue; the Post's countersubpoenas would fly. After the retraction, a chastened but unrepentant Bradlee insisted that, alas, "my source changed...
...around her, drew her to him. She let her head fall on his shoulder. He could smell her hair, and his throat contracted, as though he were going to cry. For the first time in his short battered life he was happy. His grip on her tightened, he pushed his cheek against hers. She buried her face in his neck...
Milligan, it turned out, had been born with a throat disorder that almost killed him as a tot; from then on, his childhood went downhill. His troubled father committed suicide; his stepfather, a taskmaster, alternately beat him and raped him. Milligan could never relate to women and was often taunted by schoolmates; in a trance, he once revealed to the psychiatrists that he thought himself insane as a teenager. His abundance of negative experiences, the analysts found, gave birth to Milligan's two dozen incarnations. The problem was, no one else believed them, and there was no legal precent...