Word: stroke
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Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, who used 160 pseudonyms, the most famous being Lenin, woke up at 10:30 a.m. on the day he was to die. About 18 months earlier, he had suffered a massive stroke and never fully recovered, so 10:30 was not so late for the old revolutionary to rise. He had some coffee, but it did not take, and he went back to bed. By evening Lenin was running a high fever, as Oxford historian Robert Service recounts in Lenin: A Biography. Lenin's Bolshevik buddy Nikolai Bukharin was there at the end: "When I ran into...
...Iraqi loans that would vanish with Saddam Hussein. But they don't suffice to explain such an ambitious enterprise. There is another reason, far more powerful. The Iraq crisis, and the roiling uneasiness in the world about U.S. policy, have provided France with an opportunity for the ultimate grand stroke - an attempt to actually break the American monopoly of power in the world. This is geopolitics at the highest level, and the French, who have been banished from the game for a good half-century, cannot resist the lure of playing it again...
...Iraqi loans that would vanish with Saddam Hussein. But they don't suffice to explain such an ambitious enterprise. There is another reason, far more powerful. The Iraq crisis, and the roiling uneasiness in the world about U.S. policy, have provided France with an opportunity for the ultimate grand stroke--an attempt to actually break the American monopoly of power in the world. This is geopolitics at the highest level, and the French, who have been banished from the game for a good half-century, cannot resist the lure of playing it again...
Harold Amos, who was Harvard Medical School’s first black department chair, died from complications of a stroke in Boston...
...noting wryly that the PT used to oppose pension reform. "They understand now that what causes poverty in Brazil is the excessive size of the state." Will Brazil's Congress understand that too? Lula's bond with the governors, who wield considerable influence over their congressmen, was a critical stroke. But the PT holds only 14 of Brazil's 81 Senate seats and 91 of the lower chamber's 513. In a bid for the support necessary to pass the reforms more quickly, Lula took the risky decision to back former President José Sarney for president of the Senate...