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...Joseph Nocera is an editor at large at FORTUNE and author of A Piece of the Action
They get access, that is, if there is enough of the drug to go around, and that's not always the case. Beth Nocera of Medford, Mass., a 41-year-old mother of two, has terminal metastatic breast cancer. Nocera wants to try Herceptin, an anticancer drug now in clinical trials. But Herceptin is expensive, and the manufacturer, Genentech, isn't making much beyond what it needs for testing. It currently gives the extra Herceptin to a limited number of women, chosen at random by a computer, and Nocera's number hasn't come up yet. "My fear," she says...
...Mayor Marion Barry, goes on. "I have a strong staff in place. They don't need direction from above, which is good, since they haven't had any for quite a while," says Peretz, referring to the lackadaisical editing of the recently departed Sullivan. Last week Peretz interviewed Joseph Nocera, of the Washington Monthly and FORTUNE. He joins a list of semifamous, boldface names such as Stephanopoulos and Eric Breindel (editorial-page editor of the New York Post and significant other of Lally Weymouth, daughter of Washington Post matriarch Katharine Graham); and wise guys like Michael Lewis, who filed fascinating...
...personally tailored," of course, but basically the program promises what we all want: "preservation of assets as well as ... growth and income." This is known as a "wraparound account." It is one of the newer products invented by the financial-services industry, whose explosive growth is traced in Joseph Nocera's new book, A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. Words like product and industry are intended to give "financial services" the smell of a factory, where real things are made...