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Americans are willing to endure much in the hope of becoming physicians. Jeanne O'Connor of Staten Island, N.Y., remembers the day she landed at her school on Montserrat: "Mosquitoes were biting me from all sides. When I got to my dorm there was a tarantula in the closet and a lizard in the bathtub. I sat on my bed and cried." Overcoming these and even greater obstacles, many students attending the better Caribbean schools do manage to emerge with adequate medical educations. Nearly 80% of the students at St. George's University School of Medicine on Grenada...
...million bail pending his appeal. The court threw out the conviction on a technicality: police did not have a proper search warrant when they examined a syringe that contained traces of insulin-evidence that helped convict Von Bülow-in a small black bag found in his closet. The case can be retried using legally obtained evidence, but Von Bülow's attorney, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, said he would seek to have the charges dismissed on the ground that the remaining evidence was "woefully insufficient." Said Von Bülow: "I can only pray...
...play all year and win four tournaments for that kind of prize money), something more than dollars must be at stake here. "I swing my driver now," he says, "but when I get to hitting those off-color shots, I want to throw the clubs in the closet forever and go hunting. But the funny thing is, I'm getting so I don't like to kill anything any more. And if I did put the clubs away ..." He laughs and says, "But I guess a missed golf shot isn't the end of the world, although...
Covello said she looked in the closet, in the common area outside the door to her bedroom, after she heard a strange noise and watched the door slowly open...
Covello theorized that the suspect had been rifling drawers in the suite when one of her roommates returned home, forcing the intruder into the closet. She came home, her roommate left, and the suspect was trying to slip out when she discovered him, Covello speculated...