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...week. "People will say, 'Well, wait a minute--those people were part of the senior Baath Party,' in which case they'll be taken out." The Garner camp has another fear: that some Iraqis may try to use the de-Baathification process to settle old scores, demanding that a boss be sacked for personal rather than political reasons. But generally U.S. officials are optimistic that the system can work. Says a Pentagon official: "We are bound to appoint some wrong people, but we are determined to correct any mistakes...
...bridge the considerable distance between the dark side and the somewhat tattered radiance of the myth, between the tabloid hedonist and the martyred saint. It has become a familiar problem: How to explain that the irrational, risk-taking Hefnerian who went to bed with the girlfriend of the Mafia boss of Chicago, who routinely lied about his disastrous health and had himself dosed periodically with amphetamine cocktails was, at the same time, that self-possessed rationalist-idealist, the Apollo who demanded, on that bright morning of the age of celebrity, "Ask not what your country...
...packing materials and canvases from failed works, and buys Japanese-made Holbein paints not because they are better than American-made Liquitex but because they are up to 30% cheaper. According to some of his employees, Murakami's pursuit of conveyor-belt efficiency can make him a ruthlessly demanding boss. "The word compromise is not in Murakami's vocabulary," says Tomohiro Hoshino, who does 3-D paintings at KaiKai Kiki. Still, Murakami's relentless focus on the business of making art pays rich dividends. He proudly notes that in 1998 it would take him and 30 helpers six months...
Inspectors have allegedly discovered 60 dead cats in the Beacon Hill apartment of a former Harvard Extension School student who, according to many who knew her, had a history of trouble with colleagues and employers at Harvard. Professors and a former boss in the psychology library said the woman, Heidi Erickson, was difficult to work with and filed many lawsuits against the University...
Richard E. Kaufman, Erickson’s boss in Harvard’s Psychology Library from 1994 to 1996, said she was a “nightmare” to work with...