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...many of those years, young Hoffa labored in a modest law practice. Then, four years ago, he went to work full time as executive assistant to Larry Brennan, the president of Teamsters Joint Council 43 in Detroit. He parlayed that role into alliances with local Teamsters officials around the U.S., including some who were later purged during Carey's tenure because of corruption. And Hoffa's support "wasn't confined to the union's old guard," says Harley Shaiken, professor and labor-relations specialist at the University of California, Berkeley. It also reflected the Teamsters' unhappiness with its own place...
...Saturday, Sept. 27, in the middle of the afternoon, 11-year-old Eddie Werner left his home in the Oakley Hills development in Jackson Township, N.J., outfitted in a very grownup weekend wardrobe of black jeans, a black shirt and sneakers, but holding on to a modest childlike wish--that he could sell enough candy and wrapping paper for his school's fund-raising drive to earn the grand prize of a pair of walkie-talkies. He set out to achieve his goal by knocking on the doors of the comfortable middle-class houses that dot the untroubled streets...
...there will soon be more than a few people who will start to recognize him around town. (Especially after the world has seen him on the big screen wearing nothing but a loin cloth.) But Ashong definitively resists the label of "movie star," and not just because he's modest...
Batista's income is as modest as his clinic. He receives about $80 for performing each heart procedure; a doctor in a U.S. hospital would charge about $50,000 to perform the same operation. When he gets paid to talk at a conference, he donates the fee to charity. Foreign surgeons frequently try to wine and dine him at the finest restaurants, but he is happiest chewing corn on the cob at his favorite restaurant, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Batista's chief wish is to set cardiac surgery in a direction that will benefit both the developed and the developing world...
When it comes to teaching medical techniques, of course, some of the instruction has to be hands-on, and that is where people like Doll come in. A longtime nurse practitioner from Garden City, Doll also happens to be a Dominican sister who lives in a modest home with two other members of her order. By day, Doll works for two community-health clinics that care for about 1,300 children, most of them Mexican American, whose parents may work but may not necessarily have insurance. In the evening she teaches local nurse-practitioner students how to suture wounds, treat...