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He reported that the late, lamented Sidney J. Perelman confessed that he had Parkinson's disease and Parkinson had mine, but Eisenberg, in Scientific American, asserted that Perelman said he had Bright's disease and he has mine (James Parkinson, 1755-1824, described paralysis agitans and Richard Bright, 1789-1858, chronic glomerulonephritis).
Back in September, when the backwash from Russia's crisis forced Brazil to raise interest rates to almost 50 percent, one Brazilian lamented the situation: "Brazil has never had such a responsible government; the environment for business has never been so good; why is this happening to us?"
Again, when asked how his wife, who had been bound over to a nursing home, was faring, he lamented, “She's been draggin' a fin.”
Colombia's leading daily, El Espectador , bitterly lamented the country's unreadiness for Monday's earthquake disaster.
"It's hard to do anything but just to say, 'I love you,' " he lamented.