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...Emilio Tresant chief of the medical staff at the pope's hospital said the pope will soon be moved out of the intensive care ward--perhaps on his 61st birthday today--and should be able to leave the hospital "in about a month...
Though he can be an outgoing glad-hander of relaxed charm, who willingly puts in six days a week in the political boondocks of Israel listening to ward heelers and party pros, Peres is also a studious, scholarly man who reads voraciously in three languages and writes poetry for intellectual relaxation. His office in the Labor Party's headquarters building on the Tel Aviv waterfront is usually swarming with admirers, foreign visitors and party hacks. Inside, the room is piled high with books in Hebrew and English (prominently including Hedrick Smith's work, Reagan: The Man, The President...
...Ward Kendall Montreal
...different strategies toward luck. Much of the planet for most of its history has tried to woo and conjure and appease it, longingly courting the force to draw near, to descend from the void of the random for an instant and shower fortune on some lucky head. To ward off luck's malevolent side, the infection of a curse, the evil eye, populations have danced and chanted and worked with charms. To predict its whims, they have studied omens, birds' flights, goats' entrails; they have consulted gypsies and star charts...
...down. "I never knew what the word hate was until . . . I would have dreams about putting a .45 to someone's head and see it blow away-over and over again. I remember one of the nurses saying, 'Would you be interested in working on the Vietnamese ward?' And I said, 'No I think I would probably kill them...