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Jack Mendelsohn, 68, a retired State Department official living in Washington, obtained home care for his mother in Chicago by working with Karp's Evanston, Ill., agency. His mother, who was frail and becoming forgetful, was receiving care she was dissatisfied with. Karp found a more suitable attendant and supervised her with regular home visits. Karp's fee was $90 an hour, and home care cost $125 a day--all paid for by Mendelsohn. His mother died last year, at 91. "You need a professional on-site to supervise this kind of continuous care, check in with the doctors...
LOST IN LA MANCHA. Visionary director Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated recent effort to make a Don Quixote movie is chronicled in this new documentary. After a difficult pre-production period, Gilliam’s film is slapped with a malicious case of Murphy’s Law once it begins shooting. Six days of location work, flash floods, screaming jets and an injured star force the production to shut down, leaving insurance agents to smooth over the chaos and Gilliam fans to ponder what might have been. Jeff Bridges, who starred in Gilliam?...
Even though Grammy night is already two weeks removed, the annual awards show’s ill-wrought performances by P. Diddy and Kid Rock still make me cringe. It’s too bad that the Grammies—which should be a showcase of the best talent in pop culture—have become just a sad confirmation of the fact that in the past several years, popular music has taken a severe turn for the worse. There was a time, not long ago, when the Grammies—and the music they awarded— didn?...
...impressed by the fact that silence is no longer here at Harvard,” Mendelsohn said, drawing cheers with his statement that “President Bush’s war is ill-advised, ill-timed and illegal...
...nine colleagues—including Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60, who is co-authoring A World Transformed: A Global History of the Twentieth Century with Kirby—may just have turned the tide against the administration’s ill-conceived plan. And they should feel proud for having had the courage to do so. The student body is surely proud of them for standing up for their principles. And, just maybe, students and enlightened Faculty can band together to save shopping period and condemn preregistration to the swift death it deserves when...