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...firmly behind their products. Merck says its own meta-analysis, which contains data that weren't included in the JAMA study, shows that Vioxx is safe for the heart. Others have focused on the study's admitted limitations, including its direct comparisons of dissimilar patient groups. Says Dr. Michael Friedman, a senior vice president of Pharmacia: "The JAMA article is based on theory, not on solid data...
...word this week is that the economy will be lying very still for at least a few more quarters. In an interview published Monday, super-economist Milton Friedman predicted a recession followed by a Fed-sown snap-back: "With the very unusual Federal Reserve policy of successive interest rates cuts...the key problem once the recession ends in 2002 will be how to control inflation," Friedman was quoted as telling Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera." And Manpower Inc. released a quarterly employment survey finding U.S. employers likely to keep hiring in the deep freeze through the fourth quarter...
...Here's a burst of Blavat from a Saturday Evening Post profile that Bruce Jay Friedman wrote in 1966. Read it quickly, the way he speaks it: "Kings and queens, yon royal teens, this is your Geator with the Heater coming to you on Big-Tahm Thursday where we rock the big tick-tock, where we got the class to beat all of the blast from the past...
...while Kissinger’s book may (as the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman suggests) represent a middle course that avoids the pitfalls of both the American Left and Right, it cannot provide what is a necessary synthesis of the old—Kissinger’s typical balance of power geopolitical intuition—with the new—what Kissinger calls the “New Age” issues such as the environment, the economics of globalization, and human rights...
...with Southern's serious thoughts on literature, cinema, and drugs bracketing his work as a short-story craftsman, a critic, a New Journalist, and a writer of blissfully puerile "letters." The pieces were selected and edited by Nile Southern, writer and son of the Grand Guy, and Josh Alan Friedman, musician, author of the terrific "Tales of Times Square" and a series of venomously funny cartoons, and the son of brilliant novelist Bruce Jay Friedman...