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...Anti-Social Behavior" (Opinion, Nov. 4): I was struck by Jonathan Jacoby's comment "many at Harvard...are (mis)guided in their so called career pursuits by the primary intension of selfishly accumulating inordinate wealth." As I understand his somewhat polemical writing students at Harvard who are going through recruiting are at fault because they take jobs largely based on the financial rewards of their work...
Primakov's ascent to the position of Russia's virtual President has been accomplished in the secretive style that has marked his whole career. He has always moved in the shadows, rising ever higher in the apparatus of state thanks to a reputation for diligence, loyalty and--crucial in a world of big egos--aversion to publicity. He has never been seen to lobby for a job but has carefully managed to be on hand when the powers that be were casting around for a candidate. He was a last-minute compromise candidate for the premiership last September when, after...
...combination of opposites: ambition tempered with caution; forcefulness allied with compromise; a secretive, taciturn official persona paired with a reputation for gregariousness and wit in private. His obsessive secrecy about his personal life has allowed legends and rumors to embed themselves in his biography: that he was a career KGB officer; that his father's name was Finkelstein or Kirschenblatt; that his current family name is actually a pseudonym, taken to mask his Jewish roots. The stories are plausible but unprovable. The one man who could confirm or deny them, Primakov himself, refuses to comment. As a longtime colleague puts...
Even the supermodels themselves seem bored. In Milan last month, Schiffer talked briefly about quitting modeling to concentrate on her acting career. Romijn is already distancing herself from her modeling background. "I don't like modeling that much," she says. "It's been a great trip, but straight print modeling is so mindless." How far has the stock of modeling fallen? Kate Moss once dated Johnny Depp, and Cindy Crawford was married to Richard Gere; Romijn's husband is John Stamos...
...musicalcanvas. After a trip to India and an explorationof Eastern religion, she offers us her perspectivenot only on love, but spirituality andenlightenment. Indian themes and phrases pop upall over the album, especially in "Thank U," thefirst single off the album currently saturatingairwaves. (If the "Indian experience" revitalizedMadonna's torpid career and reawakened Alanis,imagine what it could do for someone like CelineDion...