It's A Deep And All But Certain

It's A Deep And All But Certain Truth About Narcissistic Personalities That To Meet Them Is To Love Them, But To Know Them Well Is To Find Them Unbearable. Confidence Quickly Curdles Into Arrogance; Smarts Turn To Smugness, Charm Turns To Smarm.

Operating-room Errors Hold A Special Terror For Patients, If Only Because They Seem Like The Most Avoidable Kind Of Complications. The Occasional Horror Stories Of Patients Who Have The Wrong Leg Removed Or The Wrong Knee Replaced Generate The Most Headlines, As Do Tales Of Patients Whose Identities Are Mixed Up Entirely.

There's A Deep-freeze Of Sorts For All Good Intentions - A Place That You Store Your Plans To Make Changes In Your Life When You Know You're Not Going To Make Them At All.

Never Mind What You've Heard. Halle Berry Was Not The First Black Woman To Win An Academy Award For Best Actress. She Was Actually The 74th White One. And Never Mind All This Talk About America Electing Its First Black President; Barack Obama Is Actually The 44th White Man To Hold The Job.

When You're Your Parents' One Shot At A Genetic Legacy, You May Get To Attend All The Best Schools, Wear All The Best Clothes And Eat All The Best Foods - At Least Relative To Children In Multiple-sibling Households. But You Also Wind Up With An Overweening Sense Of Your Own Importance.