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...better at home," Günther says. He's now "happy to have time" for his patients again - despite working shorter hours than in Berlin, where 45 hours a week is common. For Günther, adapting to his new working environment meant slowing down from the "mad pace" he was used to at his old, understaffed hospital. "I was respectfully told to take it easy," he remembers. "And that was O.K." Shedding old habits is, in fact, one of the main challenges the new German émigrés face. "People need to learn to forget about...
...wise; in Los Angeles. Over a six-decade career, Peck received five Oscar nominations and won the best actor award in 1962 for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, a small-town lawyer battling racism in To Kill a Mockingbird. Although not all his roles were likable?Peck played a mad scientist who clones Hitler in The Boys from Brazil?he once said, "I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation...
...visiting a war-torn place," says Shashi Bhushan, an activist for the People's Union for Civil Liberties. The elephants are agitated because the lack of food in their own natural habitats has forced them to stray into human villages; when the locals resist, the elephants get mad. Meanwhile, the Indian government seems capable of little more than punning. "The problem is elephantine and there is no shortcut solution," says elephant-affairs official H.W. Pandey. A few days in a tree might change his tune...
...more twists than most Super Ape (1976) Arguably Perry's finest hour, this album carries dub over the line to a white prog-rock audience. Having earlier stripped reggae back to its basics, Perry piles on layers of vocals and effects Black Ark Experryments (1995) Perry raps mayhem and madness (Poop Song?) into the electro-dub mixing of London's Mad Professor, his touring partner and friend of the past few years Arkology (1997) A superb, three-CD review of Perry's Black Ark output in the '70's: A-grade classics, dub versions and outtakes of his own band...
...Russians are mad at Harvard again. But this time, instead of faculty bungling their economy, it’s an alum pilfering their bells. In 1930, Charles Crane bought 18 bells from the St. Danilov Monastery to save them from the Soviet authorities, who wanted to melt them down, and donated them to Harvard. But now the rebuilt monastery wants them back by March...