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...sites around the nation and involves more than 37,000 doctors. Lynch still runs the sessions for over 125 people at Mass. General, according to Julie Rosen, the Schwartz Center’s executive director. “He is a superb administrator and he is a superb human being,” Rosen said. “He is the doctor you want if you or your family member gets sick.” —Staff writer Laura G. Mirviss can be reached at lmirviss@fas.harvard.edu...
...Since “Green Eggs and Hamadeus” is targeted towards families, what kind of atmosphere would you like to create for parents and their children at performances?RK: What’s important to me about all of my events is that they are human experiences rather than one of those artificially stuffy things with all these rules. It’s also really important for kids to know that a concert hall is the most fun place they could possibly go to.There are few things in our culture that parents can bring their kids to that...
...minds. Just as Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink” engaged readers by emphasizing how powerful our instantaneous decision-making skills are, a new pop-psychology book, “Mindfucking” by Colin McGinn, has emerged to expose worrying weaknesses of the human psyche. The author, a prolific figure in the analytical school of philosophy, was inspired partly by Harry Frankfurt’s 2005 treatise “On Bullshit,” which scrutinized our use of another pseudo-expletive. The eponymous phenomenon is one of mental manipulation...
Artist Heide Hatry channels Victor Frankenstein as she stitches together pieces of pigskin to make female figures. And like Frankenstein’s monster, the masquerade of life she creates never takes on fully human form, instead leaving the viewer in shock and disgust. Hatry’s current exhibition, “Heads and Tales,” is on display at the Pierre Menard Gallery at 10 Arrow Street until March 17. Hatry fashions each of her figures out of untreated pig meat, skin, and eyes. She then dresses and paints them with makeup before modeling them...
...what to do with detainees exonerated by federal judges after their cases have been reviewed: 20 such men are technically free but remain at Gitmo because the Obama Administration has not yet been able to arrange their transfer to other countries. These include 17 Uighurs from western China; human-rights activists say they should not be released to China because authorities there would probably imprison them...