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Instead, the impact of this brilliant scientist’s pursuit of glory at all costs is hidden in a litany dinner meetings. And the difficulties of searching for clues to HIV and the efforts of other well-intentioned scientists are entirely forgotten. In trying to portray the futility of egoism in science, Crewdson commits the ultimate irony: Gallo emerges as the only memorable, potentially household name in the story...
...press release yesterday, S. Allen Counter, the director of the Harvard Foundation for Race and Intercultural Relations, called Underwood “one of the most brilliant actors in Hollywood today” and said he would be an excellent role model for students of all backgrounds...
...honoree made his feature film debut with Mystic Pizza in 1988 and recieved a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as a brilliant young lawyer in the TV series “L.A. Law.” He went on to star in the briefly-lived police drama “High Incident...
...side. Most Enron employees didn't know who he was until relatively recently. As head of Enron Capital Management--his job in 1997 and '98, when he was named CFO--he wielded his power across a very narrow band. In contrast to the avuncular Lay and the brilliant Skilling, Fastow was a PowerPoint executive whose number-crunching talent far exceeded his managerial and people skills. Indeed, when Fastow was charged with running an actual business--he was named managing director of Enron Energy Services in 1996--he botched it, and Skilling had to reel him back to finance...
...late Alice Trillin wrote some brilliant essays on being a cancer patient, and I found her theory of "the good student" especially helpful. When you are not doing well at cancer--barfing and getting bad blood tests and generally not sailing through the whole thing with grace and panache--you have a tendency to think, Help, I'm flunking cancer, as though it were your fault. Your doctor also tends to look at you as though he is disappointed. Especially if you start...