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...versatility and talent of the class is perhaps illustrated by Greg Wriede. Though he is on the team roster as swimming the backstroke and the individual medley, he has the best team time for the 200-yard butterfly, and has been known to compete in the breast stroke as well...
...Saudis themselves will not say it. Since 1982 the country has been ruled by the formidable King Fahd, 75, a reliable friend to the U.S. who could be counted on to maintain stability in his kingdom. But Fahd's health has deteriorated ever since he suffered an embolic stroke last November, and a tug-of-war is already ongoing at the highest levels of the government. Although the King has tried to cling to his throne, senior diplomats in Riyadh expect that he will soon leave the country permanently. This de facto abdication will place authority in the hands...
After his stroke, Fahd transferred power to Abdullah for six weeks and then announced he was resuming his duties, but he has never really done so. He remains bed-ridden and in excruciating pain from back problems and arthritic knees. More alarming, his mind is failing, and his doctors do not believe he will ever recover. "His behavior has been stubborn, bizarre and unpredictable," says a diplomat. "There has been a decline to the point where essentially most of the time he is in a state of dementia." Often, the King does not even know where he is. "Basically...
...indeed. But should anyone have this awesome right? And if so, who? Dr. Kevorkian seems surprisingly vague on this point. The people who decide to end pain and life with one stroke should "be specified," he told Rooney, "I don't care by who." He finally plumps for the medical profession itself to choose future "Dr. Deaths," but his relations with organized medicine have always been as mutually contemptuous as his relations with courts, churches and anything else that's organized. Each generation chooses its celebrities, as one casts a play, to act out the stories that particularly interest...
...BENTLEY was one of only a handful of insiders who knew what was coming when Bob Dole announced his surprise resignation from the Senate last week. Any other photojournalist would have regarded this scoop as an incredible stroke of luck. In this case, luck had nothing to do with it. Over the past few months Bentley, one of America's most accomplished campaign photographers, has been at Dole's side during most of the candidate's waking hours, as he was with Clinton during the last campaign. This extraordinary access comes partly because Bentley never gets in the way, partly...