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...their mission, but the psychological burden is crushing. And that is the point: this new form of warfare, imposed by Islamist fanatics-and utilized by Iraqi extremists in response to the U.S. invasion-is a sapping wound to a civilized society. The notion that there are heroic sociopaths like Jack Bauer who can carry the fight without severe psychological consequences is a fantasy. The flood of Iraq war veterans showing up at hospitals with post-traumatic stress disorder is testimony to that. The moral necessity to confront the terrorists is clear. But the war is going to be fought...
...uptown Manhattan during rehearsals for Pan Asian Rep's Cambodia Agonistes, conductor and composer Jack Jarrett, 71, taps a key on his laptop to tweak the tempo for the dancers. Looking bohemian in a black turtleneck and wire-rimmed specs, Jarrett's doing his musical director thing. Back home in Greensboro, N.C., he's got another job--as vice president of R&D for software start-up VirtuosoWorks...
They hired brilliant programmers straight out of school. Jack's $1,500-a-month Social Security check covered living expenses for three adults and two children, complete with a cook and driver. Working 12-hour days, they hunted for investors and finally found their angel, an oil company CEO, who put up $600,000 and brought in other investors. After 18 months in India, VirtuosoWorks, Indian staff and all, moved to Greensboro. NOTION, launched last spring, according to Sonic Control magazine, "has the potential to become the first true mass-market music software...
...Jack Kenny, Daniel's creator, says he set out to tell the story of "a family man, a regular guy who's trying to do good." Making his protagonist a priest raised the dramatic and moral stakes. "A priest's family is supposed to be perfect," he says, "so anything anybody does wrong becomes heightened." As for adding Jesus to the ensemble, he says he did it not for shock value but as an outgrowth of what he was taught growing up as a Catholic (he now considers himself Christian but belongs to no church): that one should have...
...have more listings at the high end, with salaries up at $325,000. We have CFO positions and some small- company CEO openings that pay $100,000. Of course, that's not to suggest that the counterpart of Jack Welch is going job hunting online...