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...sits bolt upright, his hands folded neatly on the oak table in front of him. A dark suit and subdued tie reinforce the image of a stern military man, someone just as capable of offering an interrogator no more than name, rank and serial number as he is of impassively handing down a tribunal's verdict. Not even his eyes, hidden behind dark glasses, give anything away...
...procedure lacked the drama of an epochal event. For 28 minutes, a grayish liquid in a suspended plastic bag dripped intravenously into the left hand of the child, who sat upright in a bed in the Clinical Center's pediatric intensive-care unit. That was it. But if the technique works as the doctors hope it will, the results could be little short of miraculous. Their patient may eventually begin to lead a normal life, without need for the costly and only partly effective drug now used to extend the lives of young victims of the disease...
Bush has none of these qualities. His rhetoric is small timbre, a church- basement upright, not a concert grand. He is identified with no lifelong, strongly held principles or prejudices. And since he hasn't been telling us the same thing for years on end, he can't have the pleasure of telling us now, "I told...
Only Thatcher seemed out of place among theworld leaders. While most of the leaders worecasual attire, Thatcher sat stiffly upright in afancy dress, applauding politely for the rodeoacts...
...Wozencraft is a former narcotics policewoman who got hooked on drugs and became an armed robber. In this fictive treatment, the protagonist is called Kristen Cates, but all resemblances to the author are strictly intentional. The upright Texas girl gets hooked in order to trap a dealer, backslides into the nightmare underworld of pushers and addicts, and finally surfaces in another kind of purgatory: jail. Rush (Random House; 260 pages; $18.95), Wozencraft's tale of temptation, fall and rehab, sometimes gropes for expression, as if the recollections were too painful for words. In every sense, this should make one hell...