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APPOINTED. PATRICIA FILI-KRUSHEL, 44; as president of ABC Television; in New York City. Fili-Krushel, formerly an executive at Lifetime Television and HBO, is the first woman to lead a major TV network...
HARCOURT BRACE would seem to have a major p.r. headache on its hands. The co-author of one of its lead fall titles, Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, is PATRICIA SMITH, the Boston Globe columnist who was asked to resign in June after she was found to have fabricated four columns. Harcourt executive editor Jane Isay says the firm still plans to publish the book, which was co-authored with novelist Charles Johnson and is the companion to a PBS series. "She is a wonderful writer. Her prose is riveting," says Isay, who nonetheless concedes that Harcourt...
...companies that collectively buys $3 billion in health insurance each year, has begun paying for studies comparing health outcomes among various managed-care plans with respect to asthma care and bypass surgery. "It's shameful that people not in the [health care] business have to initiate these studies," says Patricia Powers, the group's executive director. "But we don't see the health-care industry taking on these kinds of projects...
...goal is that she won't be able to raise her eyebrows," explains Dr. Patricia Wexler, who wears cat glasses, sports a '60s-style bubble haircut and has a teasing, just-between-girlfriends way with patients that makes her office seem more like Oprah than a dermatology clinic. The injections she administers--"Don't worry! It's only a baby needle!"--leave a series of bloody little welts across Maggie's forehead. Though they look like nasty mosquito bites, they will disappear within minutes as the toxin is absorbed into the muscles; within four or five days, Maggie's forehead...
Eight current Harvard affiliate are among next year's Bunting fellows: Blair; Patricia Blake; Associate Professor of Epidemiology Marlene Gold-man; Diane Hoffman-Kim; Loretta Mickley; Assistant Professor of Surgery Marsha Moses; Suzanne Romaine, and Research Associate in Medicine Ellen Weinberg...