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Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State of the world's only superpower, visits the Middle East and manages to accomplish nothing for the peace process. Irving Moskowitz goes to the region after her, and the next thing you know, the process is threatened anew with riot and rupture. Of course, it's easier to hurt than help the onerous business of negotiating peace, but that's what makes Irving Moskowitz arguably the most pivotal player in the Middle East at the moment...
...documentary "I'm almost not crazy..." John Cassavetes defines filmmaking as "waiting around...for your dynamic turn." That surely applies to his own improvisatory works: Shadows, Faces, Husbands, Minnie and Moskowitz. They are anguished home movies of actors searching for the precise pitch of rage or love. The films mean to grapple with painful truth, but it can seem ages between epiphanies. A Cassavetes movie often plays like two hours in the waiting-waiting-waiting room of the Actors Studio...
...respects Clinton's message is a little late. Over the past two decades, a number of activist groups, such as the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and the Council on Economic Priorities, and consumers themselves have persuaded corporations to behave as if they lived in the community. Says Milton Moskowitz, a longtime tracker of corporate behavior and co-author of 100 Best Places to Work in America: "There are a lot more 'good' companies. Originally, way back, corporate responsibility had to do with an external commitment to the community and philanthropic contributions. Now it's even broader." Says Craig Smith...
Women in comas have given birth before, usually to children conceived before the women were stricken. And by tradition, barring a living will, doctors honor a family's perception of a coma victim's wishes. The New York woman had been a devout Roman Catholic. Says Ellen Moskowitz, a lawyer and ethicist at the Hastings Center, "It seems reasonable to conclude this is the kind of decision she would have wanted...
...first step is the recognition that the problem exists," said Moskowitz. "The medical school deans on down need to confront this and identify ways to make sure that salaries are more comparable and that women are more involved in the promotion process...