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...forms of the questionable conduct Angell describes have occurred in Australia and New Zealand, only on a smaller scale, says David Henry, professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Newcastle and coauthor of the foreword to the Australasian edition of Angell's book. Just-published research in which Henry was involved suggests that a large portion of Australian specialists are "confident engagers" with industry, convinced that whatever largesse they receive doesn't affect their prescribing...
...Albee notes in the foreword, "Alan's prose does not change its tone no matter the event, and if you are rushing through the inconsequential you may very well miss the momentous." There is plenty of both. The opening chapters are acutely felt remembrances of childhood as a Jewish outsider, the son of two physicians, in revolutionary Russia and then in rural America. Other children mockingly asked whether he had had pencils in "Rooshia"; a teacher sneered that he of all people should know the meaning of "usury." Arresting as these cherished grievances are, Schneider does little to explain...
...Ottoman influence more than four centuries ago, when the rulers subsidized a wide range of decorative but practical objects, including bronze lamps, candlesticks and ceramics. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is eager to capitalize on the resonances of the past. The exhibition is opening, he writes in a foreword for the show's catalog, at "a most propitious time, as Turkey's aspirations toward membership of the European family of nations in the European Union are center stage." If the Turkish delights on offer in London help boost Turkey's chances in Europe, the Turkish people will have extended...
...death, we have been given back the binder that was on her desk. Ariel: The Restored Edition (HarperCollins; 211 pages) prints the poems Plath chose for her book and in the order in which she gave them--the director's cut, as it were. It also includes a foreword by Frieda Hughes, the couple's daughter. Amazingly, before work began on the restored edition, Hughes, who is also a poet, had never read her mother's masterpiece. "Sometimes we have to wait until we're the right age for something," says Hughes, 44, who lives in Wales. "When...
...maximum the evidence" in response to senior policymakers' interest in links between al-Qaeda and Saddam. That sounds eerily close to accusations made about the British government's September 2002 dossier, which included the claim that Saddam could fire chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes. Blair's foreword pushed the case harder, calling the issue of Saddam's weapons a "current and serious threat to the U.K. national interest." Last week Blair admitted: "I have to accept that we have not found [WMD] and that we may not find them." President Bush called the Senate report "useful...