A Time to Remember.
My first recollection of my father was when I was three years old. We lived in a one-room chattel house perched on a hilltop. There was a detached kitchen made of galvanize. The backyard was crowded with goat and sheep pens places for turkeys, ducks and chickens and some...

Second time a winner: managing physician practices with success; A proven formula based on the school of hard knocks.
Ten years ago the Croes * Oliva Group surveyed chief executive officers of 31 hospitals throughout New England and found that a staggering 87.1 percent believed that physician-partnering strategies were essential to their organization. But only a scant 12.9 percent responded that they were exceptionally pleased with their results,...

Billy Mitchell, the 3d Attack Group and the Laredo Project of 1923.
On Wednesday, October 28, 1925, the court-martial of Brig. Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell convened in the Emory Building, a facility across from the northwest corner of the U.S. Capitol. Over the next two months, the court-martial became the biggest media event in the nation, one of the great trials...

Big welcome for Pacquiao; Manila leads homecoming rites for boxing hero.
Byline: ROY C. MABASA Manila residents are set to shower homecoming boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, their adopted son, with confetti in a citywide ticker-tape parade shortly upon his arrival early this morning from San Antonio, Texas, where he defeated Mexican boxer Jorge Solis last Sunday. ...

Life is a foreign language.
Our contributing editor recounts a linguistic adventure in an exotic mountain kingdom long ago. Sometimes one must make do with the bare essentials and hope for the best.--Ed. The American writer Christopher Morley observed in a work published in 1925 that life is a foreign language. To...

Tennessee Advanced Practice Nurse Compensation Survey results 2006-2007.
In 2006, representatives from Middle Tennessee Advanced Practice Nurses (MTAPN), Greater Memphis Area Advanced Practice Nurses (GMAAPN), and Northeast Tennessee Nurse Practitioners Association (NETNPA) decided to poll APNs in Tennessee to compare data with the most recent results from the Advance for Nurse Practitioners national NP survey. ...

Carousel corner.
Last issue we reviewed The Smithereens' Meet the Smithereens!, a recreation of the seminal Meet the Beatles! What I failed to mention-as Smithereens drummer Dennis Diken makes abundantly clear in the liner notes--is that The Smithereens recreated the Capitol album that ravaged the colonies to the tune of 3.6...

Libya offers sanctuary to Misuari; After jailed MNLF chieftain finally gets his freedom.
Byline: Edd K. Usman When detained Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chieftain Nur Misuari finally gets his freedom, Libya is willing to issue him a passport and give him a sanctuary. That is if Misuari, fighting a legal battle since January 2002 over rebellion charges,...

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Ideas to revitalize downtown I have a few thoughts regarding Sam Bond's Garage recently making it in Esquire magazine as one of "America's Best Bars." The only one from Oregon, in fact. People want novelty and new experiences. Why don't...

'Capacity fees' and others.
"A cunning businessman must not run out of terminology and phrases of nomenclature in the conduct of his profession. These will provide him with a scent of legitimacy when drawing allowances and demanding fees for himself and for his services for which he maybe criticized later." Of...