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...R.O.A.D. to Happiness: "R.O.A.D. stood for residencies in radiology, opthalmology, anesthesiology, and dermatology. These specialties usually paid better than a career in family or internal medicine. For students leaving medical school with an average debt of more than $100,000, income was an important consideration. A R.O.A.D. specialty also meant a better ability to have what doctors called a controllable lifestyle. On the R.O.A.D., schedules were more predictable. There were fewer emergencies. Nights spent on call at the hospital were limited. On the R.O.A.D., a doctor could reliably make good on commitments other than work. On the R.O.A.D., becoming...
...walking for a long time, and you've known it. Now you are about to take the most harrowing final steps imaginable. You will be handcuffed, placed in a cell, and you will have nothing but the time of your final days to reflect on what your life has stood for. You're among the greatest white-collar criminals in history. Was it worth it, Mr. Madoff...
...book, ‘This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.’ “It is a great book,” Mirrer said, “a fascinating book.” According to her, Faust’s book stood out among the other finalists’. “It is a very different book,” Mirrer said, adding that it deals with a moment in the nation’s history with sweeping changes. The book is about the impact of death and suffering on the nation?...
...you’re not,” he shot back. Then he immediately went back to singing. The insolent codger!I flushed with shame as I was thrust from the pew. Of course I couldn’t challenge his abuse now that I stood in plain sight of every parishioner (yet again!). So, what could I do but offer him a winsome smirk—a way of saying to everyone else, “No no, that might’ve looked nasty but Mr. Oswald is such a dear. He can just get a little carried...
...that "it's a tragic irony" that he is now being hunted by policemen on the orders of a government led by his own party. "It's also a joke," he said sourly. "Particularly because I stand the ground on which the late Benazir Bhutto [Zardari's assassinated wife] stood when she promised the reinstatement of the Chief Justice. And I stand on the ground that is sanctified by three signatures on three different occasions by the new President, Asif Ali Zardari. It's ironic that the person who didn't break an agreement should...