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About 600 years old and 50 ft. high, the great tree, with its 52 1/2-in. girth and 127-ft. limb spread, has inspired an outpouring of sympathy. Well- wishers stand vigil, send get-well cards, flowers, candles, even cans of chicken soup with anguished messages: "Please...
George Bush's political gifts include a keen sense of balance: when he finds himself out on a limb, he usually edges back to a less shaky perch. After finally realizing that his Administration's less than enthusiastic reaction to Mikhail Gorbachev's headline-catching arms-control gambits was alienating the NATO allies he will meet with this week in Brussels, the President decided a more positive response was required...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...Chief Justice sentenced Akeem to be maimed with a blunt kitchen instrument, the limb to be named later...
Paul C. Scatena, a medical student at theUniversity of Rochester, uncovered three of thearticles while doing research on a phenomenonknown as phantom limb pain, and notified Harvardin August. The case was first made public Mondayafter Frazier's resignation...