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Remembrance of things past
Luckily for Fénéon, the police were simply investigating anyone in their files and their first search proved little more than a worrying nuisance. Despite the books and photographs that confirmed his allegiance to radical causes the officers gave the place no more than a cursory glance and allowed him to leave for work at the War Ministry, where amazingly, he was storing a small box of detonators. He had obviously benefited from reluctance of the authorities to exert themselves over a case where the only victim was himself, an outspoken advocate of the anarchist cause. After the Vaillant's bomb-throwing incident in the Chambre des Députés, Tailhade was rumored to have exclaimed: “ What matter the victims, if the gesture is beautiful!” which left him in the embarrassing position of having to accept the loss of an eye with as much grace as he could muster. He does seem to have managed this remarkably well, occasionally stunning guests at his home by popping out his glass eye and dropping into a tumbler of water. (David Sweetman.Explosive Acts. Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Felix Fénéon and the Art and Anarchy of the Fin de Siècle. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000:373)
Choose your cardiologist well
Physician volume is a well established determinant of outcomes of invasive cardiac surgery procedures. Studies have demonstrated an inverse relation between the annual surgeon volume of coronary artery bypass graft procedures and in-hospital mortality. Now a study from Ontario, Canada, demonstrated that the 30 day mortality and the 1 year mortality of patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction are also affected by …