The way the Pentagon and White House have responded to failures at Walter Reed with profuse apologies and by firing a general and a highly placed civilian is different from how the administration acted after the last major military scandal.
Ten days later Ballou got violently ill, with uncontrollable chills, profuse sweats and headaches that felt like "a 9-inch spike through my head, " he says.
Coupling reroutes lives, and delimits them, and when the stork turns up bearing a charming bundle the chances for complication grow alarmingly profuse.