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...forbidden, for example, from having names written on charts visible to other patients. The goal, I guess, is to avoid situations like: "Hey, Mom, did you know that lady from church has syphilis?" Of course, we couldn't put a bag over Johnny's head, and he wouldn't have wanted that. He seemed happy for everyone to know him. The slow, cheerful deliberateness with which he acknowledged each of his new admirers shone warmly, calming the nervous air of my stressed-out suburbanite waiting room...
...this really is, is delicate at best. "I don't have a crystal ball," said Kershaw, who has less than a month left in Iraq before his unit turns the region over to the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. "But five months ago people told me this wouldn't last a month. And look," he said, pointing to the unlikely gathering of sheiks at the al Rashid Thursday. "All I know is that the more this has taken root, the more bad guys we've been able to catch. It doesn't have to be perfect...
...just in business. Rock icon Bono gets high marks for his woomanship in promoting social causes. A surprisingly genial visit in 2000 to the archconservative Senator Jesse Helms, during which Bono communed with the septuagenarian politician, yielded an appropriation of $435 million for debt relief for Africa. It wouldn't have happened, say the authors, had it not been for Bono's on-the-spot ability to switch "to a completely different language," abandoning his fact-laden pitch to talk religion with Helms...
Over the past 14 years, the Colorado Rockies were so awful that they could have signed Denver Broncos football legend John Elway to play left field and it wouldn't have put any more fans in Coors Field's 50,000 seats. Or hurt the team's performance...
...ever get, in terms of novel writing, stuff that's too outrageous? One wouldn't guess that you reject stuff as being too outrageous...