Word: learnedness
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"I didn't like to lose," says Lawyer Alan Page, 40, a special assistant to the Minnesota attorney general, "but no one has ever explained to me how one loss blights a season." Sometimes, the worst thing to be in America is second best in the world. "It doesn't...
No one was prepared for an exciting surprise. In a brilliant end run that assured world attention, American PEN President Norman Mailer asked Secretary of State George Shultz to deliver the gathering's opening address. Unfortunately, the novelist did not notify the PEN board of directors, who were dismayed when...
Your story on Navy Surgeon Commander Donal Billig [MEDICINE, March 3] focuses attention on "widespread deficiencies in the nation's military health care system." There is a more insidious problem: physicians will not pass judgment on colleagues. Billig was fired from two private-sector positions before he went to Bethesda...
As a Holocaust survivor, I learned that there are three sources that can provide endurance and strength. They are love of G-d, love of a woman and love of freedom. Anatoli Shcharansky [WORLD, Feb. 24] has all three. Rabbi Isaac C. Avigdor West Hartford, Conn.
For Carl Icahn, Wilde's words may be painfully true. When Icahn learned last August that he had won his bitter battle to take over Trans World Airlines, the New York financier and renowned corporate raider put on a pilot's cap and jacket and pranced around his office. "We...