It's possible to become the world's best read person, or research an entire PhD, without spending any money or even moving from the sofa.
As someone scheduled to undergo prostate surgery, I read "Person, Patient, Statistic" (Cases, Dec. 16) with interest and finally with a sense of dismay.
Yet the police report for the lineup reads: "Persons present during lineup: Att Robert Schroeder representing Mr Lathierias [sic] Boyd".
He wrote that he had "sincere respect" for the group and that its journal, The Harbinger, was "conducted by an assemblage of well-read persons who mean no harm and who, perhaps, can do no less".
"You can read a person," she said.
So you learn to read a person's mind.
Can you read a person by their polishing-off preferences?
Leukemia doesn't read a person's tax returns, and my patients run the gamut.
The saint (read good person) of New Haven is the golden-hearted prostitute Tyesha.
We gaze upon her and fall all over ourselves trying to read the person she is.
