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...takes the Emmy voters at least three years to find out that a show stinks. The only thing the producers of The West Wing could have done to lose the Emmy was to move the show to HBO (full disclosure: that company and TIME are owned by the same parent corporation...
...treating Palestinian and Israeli victims alike, having once performed emergency surgery in a Jerusalem street and being one of the first to arrive at the hospital after explosions. He was a comforting figure to ambulance drivers and paramedics, most of whom had trained with him. "He was everybody's parent, everybody's uncle," says longtime friend Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik of Chicago. It was this combination of eminence and accessibility that prompted New York University's Downtown Hospital to invite Applebaum to speak near ground zero the Monday before the Sept. 11 anniversary--and two days before Nava's wedding...
...that he's focused on teaching, but don't expect a globe-trotting rainmaker to spend all his time holding office hours or grading papers. Besides his ties to Goldman, Thornton sits on the boards of Ford, Intel and two News Corp. subsidiaries, British Sky Broadcasting and Hughes, the parent company of DirecTV. (Star TV, also owned by News Corp., is one of two Western stations broadcast into China.) "He's looking forward to slowing down a bit," says Jeffery Harte, a brokerage analyst at Sandler O'Neill & Partners, "but I expect him to be an active and involved board...
After holding the top job in Singapore for J.P. Morgan Chase, Wong, 43, was snatched up in February by DBS Group Holdings, parent of Singapore's largest bank. As chief administrative officer, she wasted no time in designing new structures for how the bank handles everything from diversifying loan-portfolio risk to recruiting employees. In October, Wong moved up to CFO. Her charge: to add greater sophistication to the way DBS manages its capital and help the company further expand into Asian countries such as China, India, Thailand and Indonesia...
...when they passed the Biggs-sponsored bill in April, schools were to literally add a section to report cards--alongside the traditional assessments in reading, writing and 'rithmetic--for this measure of a child's body. At a time when schools are increasingly taking on responsibilities once left to parents--from teaching about sex and drugs to enforcing dress codes--this development was perhaps not all that surprising. But feeding a child is arguably a parent's most elemental task, so the prospect of schools' intruding in such an intimate matter and issuing F-is-for-fat grades was mortifying...