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...Jerusalem-born pediatrician and a psychiatric social worker, Emanuel grew up in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette. His is a high-achieving family: one brother, Ari, is a renowned Hollywood agent who inspired a character on the television series Entourage. His other brother, Ezekiel, is an influential bioethicist who will advise the Obama Administration on health policy...
...parable for the 21st century. Lisa Genova, 38, was a health-care-industry consultant in Belmont, Mass., who wanted to be a novelist, but she couldn't get her book published for love or money. She had a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard, but she couldn't get an agent. "I did what you're supposed to do," she says. "I queried literary agents. I went to writers' conferences and tried to network. I e-mailed editors. Nobody wanted it." So Genova paid $450 to a company called iUniverse and published her book, Still Alice, herself...
...other words, anything could go wrong. And if it does, the DHS can say, "We told you so." Or, as Joe Funk, a former Secret Service agent who now runs the private firm U.S. Safety & Security, puts it, "Somebody is covering their...
Despite the missing billions and plenty of how-could-this-have-happened awe in the media, the actual prosecution case against Madoff may be pretty straightforward. He has already admitted guilt to a federal agent. What's more, Madoff is reportedly trying to negotiate a plea agreement that could conclude the fraud case against him without a trial. But that's just the beginning of Litt's work. Madoff took as much as $50 billion from investors around the world, working with dozens of feeder funds and other middlemen to lure money into his scheme. Litt will have to decide...
...Student-athletes are not paid; they are not vying for a contract extension or to increase their market price as a free agent. Many, as the NCAA likes to say, will turn pro “in something other than sports.” When a human being puts him or herself through the crucible that a sport can be, subjects him or herself to the mental and physical discipline and sacrifice, and puts his or her body on the line without a paycheck in sight, something deeper is at work. When I was growing up, we called this...