Word: lester
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...portrayal of depressive self absorption in “Adaptation” will find something to like here. As an archetype of a lonely middle aged man, Spritz has both his literary and cinematic forebears: Frank Bascombe in “The Sportswriter”’ and Lester Burnham in “American Beauty”’ both come to mind. Unlike these men, however, whose alienation stems in part from being faceless strangers in the crowd, Spritz is a celebrity. Like any average Joe, he’s constantly screwing up with his kids...
...Administration moved swiftly to name Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach as interim FDA chief after the September departure of Commissioner Lester Crawford just two months after his confirmation. (The Senate is investigating a possible failure to disclose financial interests.) Von Eschenbach, a Texas urologist with close ties to the Bush family, has no regulatory experience. Plus, he's already fully engaged. He has headed the National Cancer Institute (NCI) since 2002. The plan: have him do both jobs...
...means waiting until long after drugs have been approved and desperate hopes raised to learn what might have been gleaned much sooner. The FDA has come under increasing criticism for mishandling the drug-approval process, culminating last week in the resignation of its chief, Lester Crawford. Maybe it's time for Congress to redefine that process. "The FDA should not approve a drug unless it is shown to be better in some way than the existing drugs," suggests Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and author of The Truth About the Drug Companies...
...Lester Y. Leung ’06 had never needed to apply for financial aid. But after the storm, at the urging of his senior tutor, he called the office. His father, a professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine, was suddenly without a lab—or a job. Leung said Harvard will allow him to delay paying this semester’s tuition until an unspecified date...
...prolific Boyle (author of 10 novels and six previous short-story collections) returns to mercilessly test his characters' physical and emotional endurance. Lester, a young bartender, experiences "wrecks both literal and figurative, replete with flames, blood, crushed metal and broken hearts." He isn't alone. In other stories, a radio DJ must survive 12 days without sleep for a p.r. promotion and a couple is trapped in a crotch-high snowdrift on a back mountain road. The gratification comes as each, captured in Boyle's calculating and caustic prose, fights his or her way out of the wreckage. --By Rebecca...