Word: withdrawn
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What empire? Diana is the dominant partner in what is left of the marriage. In avoiding her, Charles has to a degree withdrawn from his sons. The boys palpably adore their mother, who lavishes time and affection on them. Was the Morton book not the impetuous blowout it seems to be but a prelude to divorce? In her more florid moments, Diana has said she may never be Queen. (A current story around London is that if Elizabeth II lives another 20 years, Charles may stand aside in favor of William.) But Diana has reportedly told the Queen she would...
...mother's lover -- an infidelity made less sordid by the fact that the father, a World War II airman, had been reported dead. Over the years the boy is sexually molested by an uncle, battered by a cousin, tossed like a beanbag by insensitive adolescents. He remains serenely withdrawn. When the spell is broken -- when he re-enters reality -- he seems unmarked. "I'm free," he sings in the second act's stunning highlight, as he confronts his tormenters with confidence, not malice...
...most dubious innovation was trust-fund athletics. Competitors could receive appearance money and endorsement contracts, but the money had to be deposited in trust funds. It amounted to money laundering for athletes. Funds for expenses could be withdrawn, and the whole could be cashed out upon retirement. Accountants could not even call this deferred income, but it was the fig leaf needed for eligibility...
...annually for the drug itself and as much as $9,000 more for doctor-monitored treatment. But for some it brings miracles. Of 20,000 American schizophrenics who did not respond well to Thorazine and were given clozapine, more than half have shown significant improvement: they become less withdrawn, and the nagging inner voices grow hushed. One patient in 10 responds to the drug so dramatically that the effect is like being reborn. "You go from hating the sunshine in the mornings to loving it," says Daphne Moss, who after two years of treatment with clozapine is teaching public school...
...superiority, the drug almost didn't make it to the U.S. market. Approved in several European countries in 1969, it was quickly withdrawn six years later, after Finnish doctors reported that eight patients taking the drug had died of agranulocytosis, a sudden loss of infection-fighting white blood cells. In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration halted even preliminary tests. "We assumed it was a dead product," recalls psychopharmacologist Gilbert Honigfeld, who helped develop the drug for Sandoz and is now in charge of marketing it in the U.S. American and European research eventually showed that agranulocytosis occurred...