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...training to function in both worlds.” A Columbia graduate, Kaptchuk became interested in alternative and Chinese traditional medicine in the sixties. “I didn’t want to do anything that could be considered collaboration,” he says, explaining the maverick tendencies that led him to earn his doctorate in Oriental Medicine from the Macau Institute of Chinese Medicine in 1975. In addition, Kaptchuk is licensed to practice acupuncture in 40 states. But what Kaptchuk casually fails to mention is his current status as a leading researcher for HMS’ frontier...
DIED. ROY HUGGINS, 87, pioneering writer-producer of popular TV series such as Maverick, The Fugitive and The Rockford Files; in Santa Monica, Calif. Huggins' dramas were innovative in style and tone: Maverick (1957-62) took a tongue-in-cheek approach to the popular western genre, while The Fugitive (1963-67) drew huge ratings for the finale of its four-year saga of Dr. Richard Kimble, a man wrongly accused of murdering his wife...
...maverick,” he said. “If I’m wrong, I’m dead...
...nonprofit organizations. His life was marred by inexplicable confusions, anger, depression and lost faith. Not until one night in 1991 did he understand why. He was talking on the phone to an old Connecticut friend when the friend blurted out that he had been abused back in those Maverick days by Father Brett. "I had this rush of feeling," Martinelli told TIME. "I realized, Wow, that's what happened to me." He began seeing a therapist and a year later filed a civil suit in New Haven, Conn., federal court against Brett and the Bridgeport diocese, then led by Bishop...
...March 4, McGraw-Hill published "The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell" by University of San Francisco professor Oren Harari. In April, the same publisher will publish "The Rumsfeld Way: Leadership Wisdom of a Battle-Hardened Maverick" by Jeffrey Krames. Can "The Rice Rules" be far behind...