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...boss at the association, Thomas A. Dingman '67--now associate dean for human resources and the House system--says Bruzelius was well-regarded among the staff and largely overqualified for her position...
Tipper Gore, wife of the Vice President, has organized a first-ever White House conference on mental health, which takes place next week. Gore, who disclosed in the run-up to the conference that she was treated for depression in the early '90s, has prodded her husband's boss to ask Congress to spend more money to treat the mentally ill. President Clinton backs a bill in Congress to force employers to help too by providing equal insurance coverage for mental and physical health. (Currently, insurance plans can charge higher co-payments for psychiatric visits than for other medical care...
...Case has that covered too. In the same week as his Microsoft deposition, the AOL boss took time out to appear on Capitol Hill to make an impassioned argument for government regulation in the cable-Internet industry. His pitch: the FCC needs to make sure that the little guys--which in his book include AOL--don't suffer if proprietorial cable services like AT&T's At Home or Time Warner's RoadRunner end up owning the online gateway. "It's a battle," Case said, "between good and evil." The FCC isn't entirely convinced, but it has agreed...
...month before her nuptials to Prince Edward, SOPHIE RHYS-JONES received an unsolicited gift from the British tabloid the Sun: an 11-year-old topless photo of herself splashed across the paper's inside pages. The photo shows Rhys-Jones' former boss, a radio deejay, lifting her bikini top. Despite the unorthodox nature of the office high jinks, the two were apparently not romantically involved. Outraged reaction to the photo's publication came from the usual corners, such as Buckingham Palace, and curiously sanctimonious ones, such as rival tab the Mirror. The not entirely chagrined Sun published a full-page...
Secondly, we voluntarily planned Freddie's death. My aunt did not plan to kill hundreds of hogs. Her boss told her to. She merely complied and does not feel guilty, because, in the words of psychologist Stanley Milgram, "the person entering an authority system no longer views himself as acting out of his own purposes but rather comes to see himself as an agent for executing the wishes of another person...