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A neurologist member of the SVC reviews the files and attempts to confirm the diagnosis of ischemic stroke, using a standard stroke work-up checklist to assist with and document a systematic review of the medical records.
The LAT fronts and the NYT runs inside stories on lawyers' attempts yesterday to overturn a ruling that denied bail to former Los Alamos physicist Wen Ho Lee.
I frankly don't know what to make of Besieged , which attempts to forge a complicated relationship between its protagonists through "pure cinema," and has won admiration for being allusive, elusive, elliptical, and other words that begin with "a" and "e" (enigmatic, ambivalent, evocative, etc.).
But after attempts to eliminate them began under President Reagan, and intensified with the Mapplethorpe fiasco, Yates' career became preoccupied with keeping them alive.
I'd leave the strangulation-in-cradle attempts to CBS News.