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...playwright does not deny that bad reviews wound. But these days, there is also a keen pride as Wasserstein views her handiwork on Broadway. "I'm normally a self-deprecating person," she says, putting it mildly. "But when I saw those women on stage in the feminist rap group, I said, 'Good for them, and good for us.' This is a play of ideas. Whether you agree or not doesn't matter...
...Since the Harvard Business School Ph.D. is more oriented toward writing cases, the students often don't come out with as keen a level of scholarship and as theoretically-minded," says James W. Kuhn '50, professor of management and organization at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. "I tend to accept this general impression as a little harsher than reality justifies...but you certainly do not have the same kind of scholarship you see at [the business schools of] the University of Chicago or Carnegie-Mellon [University...
...That keen self-awareness should stand her in good stead at Edgehill Newport, the 12 1/2-acre residential facility where she is expected to stay for about a month. Patients there are assigned to one of six 24-bed rehabilitation units. | Treatment, which combines medical and psychological therapy with elements from Alcoholics Anonymous, includes intense group and peer counseling designed to break down addicts' denial of their problems. Sessions with family members are also offered...
Being able to speak to two sides while they cannot seriously talk to each other is a tremendous plus in diplomacy. At times some Washington officials sought to overplay "the China card," but the Chinese had a keen sense of how far to let things go. In 1978 President Jimmy Carter established full diplomatic relations between Washington and Beijing, putting the relationship on a permanent, rather than personal, basis...
Covering the White House has always been a difficult job. The competition is keen, and the sources are limited. Unlike Congressmen or even big-city mayors, who can be staked out and buttonholed by reporters, the President and his top aides are carefully protected by elaborate security measures and protocol. Journalists who push too hard risk getting frozen out. "Generally the best, most aggressive reporting does not come from White House reporters, because they have to maintain their good relations," says Knight-Ridder correspondent Owen Ullmann...