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...Henry IV, or whoever it was," according to its creator-all of them visibly risible. It is shaped like an elephant, in accordance, says Emett, with Livingstone's Law: "Memory may hold the door, but elephants never forget." Among its components are an eeny-meeny-miney-mo unit (random selection) and a card-punch system run by electrified woodpeckers...
...last month, Ebert and the deans of the 105 other American medical schools can breathe more easily. By treating the maldistribution of doctors as an evil that can be cured on an individual basis, the new legislation leaves the foundation of a national health care system to the random career choice of thousands of medical students. Beginning next year, each student who needs financial aid but does not qualify for a school scholarship can contract with the federal government for yearly loans, paying the sum back after graduation in the form of primary care practice in the National Health Service...
Fallows did not jump at the chance to work for Carter, mulling over the late June offer for five or six days. He had to drop his writing projects--a piece for The New Yorker about the military and a book for Random House about class divisions in the United States--and survey friends to see whether he would have difficulty crossing back into journalism afterwards. And he studied the charges of Robert Shrum, an ex-McGovern speechwriter who left his position with Carter with a blast about the Georgian's alleged two-facedness. After three months working for Carter...
Those are the chief conclusions of the second TIME Citizens' Panel conducted by the public-opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. Last month TIME published the results of the first survey, taken among 300 voters chosen at random from a national cross section of 1,500 people. To examine the changing-or unchanging -reactions to the campaign, Yankelovich went to 303 other voters between Oct. 8 and 10, after the second debate...
...hoarfrost glistens on your three-day growth of beard as you park your Honda in front of the Orpheum. Random leaves, pages from the Good Book of Earthly and Other-Earthly bounty, are strewn about you as you assume your place at the end of the autumnal queue. "Good day, fellow concert patron," you intone with pious conviction. "How many of these crisp, green bills need I fork over to gain entrance to this Mighty Fortress...