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Even lawyers who have faced off against Edwards tend to speak of him in warm terms. "With Johnny, he was never not good to his word. I wish I could say that about all the lawyers I've faced," says Raleigh attorney Alan Duncan...
...funny line, but the comedian may have had it backward. Short-term stresses like speaking in public, it turns out, boost your immune system in ways that tend to keep you out of the coffin, not put you in it. That's one of the findings that emerged from a study of 30 years of stress research published last week in Psychological Bulletin, a journal of the American Psychological Association. In a meta-analysis of more than 300 studies involving some 19,000 subjects, psychologists Gregory Miller at the University of British Columbia and Suzanne Segerstrom at the University...
...Still, I tend to agree with Guare’s reaction to this phenomenon: “I find that a) tremendously comforting that we’re so close and b) like Chinese water torture that we’re so close...
During the next few years my love of the Yankees only grew. Every February I would get excited about the start of spring training. School did tend to detract from my ability to follow the team as thoroughly as I would have liked, but once summer came I could give the Yankees my full attention. And I did. I never missed a game—or at least I tried never to miss a game. If I couldn’t watch it on television, I would bring a radio along with...
America can pretty much be divided in two: on one side are Rush's people and Howard's people, and on the other the decorous and civilized who tend to be uncomfortable with strong broadcast opinion unless it comes from Bill Moyers, Bill Buckley or, if pressed, Andy Rooney. The Rush and Howard people ... seem to be winning, or certainly proliferating ... Limbaugh and Stern are popular because their audiences consider them uniquely honest, commonsensical, funny and a bit reck-less (more than a bit in Stern's case) at a time when most people on radio and TV seem phony...