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Doutre-Roussel succeeds in her attempt to penetrate Valrhona’s closely-guarded headquarters, but she fails in her later mission. As the chocolate buyer at the London department store Fortnum & Mason, she undertakes a quixotic bid to introduce the British to fine chocolate. But she quits in frustration at her customers’ persistent desire to buy violet creams...
Rothman co-authored the study with Neil Nevitte, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, and S. Robert Lichter, the president of the Center for Media and Public Affairs, which is affiliated with George Mason University and, according to the Washington Post, is supported by conservative foundations...
Richard Florida is the pop economist people love to lionizeor hate. Three years ago, the George Mason University professor (then at Carnegie Mellon) wrote a book christening the creative class: an expansive group of architects, engineers, musicians, nurses and even lawyers who drive economic growth in today's knowledge economy. Attract those workers, and companies will follow, argued Florida. Some cities, like Detroit and Cleveland, Ohio, took the theory to heart. In other circles, Florida was written off as a quack. (Consider the subtext: tax breaks to lure business are pass?...
Patients such as Steve Mason don't view it that way. A retired Army captain who served in Vietnam and has published three books of poetry, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer last April. Eventually, his longtime internist agreed to write his Nembutal prescription, but only after Mason cleared all the law's hurdles: submitting oral and written requests in the presence of two witnesses, waiting a mandatory 15 days and getting the concurrence of a second doctor that he had less than six months to live. "This isn't suicide," Mason insists. "Suicide means a needless taking of life...
...years, the whole country will have laws that value the civil right to die," predicts Steve Mason. That may be wishful thinking, and in any event, Mason won't be around to see it happen. Soon, as is his wish, his ashes will be scattered among Oregon's giant redwoods. "I feel liberated," he says. "Because, when my time is up, I get to choose." And that, it seems, adds a small consolation to the goodbye...