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'The con­sum­mate men­tor': Bill Clin­ton, Jim Wil­son and oth­ers re­flect on Tachi Ya­mada's life and lega­cy

When Jim Wil­son was 36 and just start­ing out as an am­bi­tious and oc­ca­sion­al­ly tem­pes­tu­ous physi­cian-sci­en­tist at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, he had a rit­u­al. Each Sat­ur­day, af­ter a week in which Wil­son bris­tled at the ad­min­is­tra­tion, de­mand­ing this or com­plain­ing about that, Tachi Ya­ma­da, the chair of in­ter­nal med­i­cine, would in­vite him to spend a few min­utes in his of­fice be­fore the foot­ball games.

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