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...drastic, brutal and, surprisingly, well admired by his peers. He was awarded a faculty position at Temple University Medical School and the Man of the Year award from the American Academy of Psychotherapy. From the 1950s to the late 1970s, Rosen was psychiatry's Superman; he soared to the peak of his profession with the claim that he could cure any psychosis...
...great ambassador for baseball and was a great player once, too, but an entire generation of fans is watching him play at a level far below his peak. If he wants to be remembered as a great ballplayer instead of merely an enduring one, maybe it's time to retire...
...Harvard men's tennis team working at peak team efficiency? Maybe not, but this past weekend's Fluitt Invitational Tournament in Lexington, Ky., did a lot to prepare the team for this weekend's rigors...
Washington was also stuck in internal wrangling. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wanted the White House to push harder for NATO military action, but Defense Secretary William Cohen balked, fearing air strikes would only embolden the Kosovo Liberation Army, then at the peak of its strength and demanding an independent state, which Washington opposed. Clinton was too distracted to knock bureaucratic heads or force the allies to carry out their threat. The indecision "proved to be a disaster," says a U.S. diplomat. "Milosevic took the measure of the West and decided he could take advantage...
...virtually showered money on Meriwether and his band of supposed geniuses. While the term hedge refers to techniques for reducing risk, funds such as Meriwether's often do just the opposite by using vast sums of borrowed money to make highly speculative bets in global markets. At the peak of its borrowing, the secretive fund reportedly carried a debt load 100 times as great as its net assets, or ownership capital. This would be like putting down $1,000 of your own money to buy a $100,000 house--in a flood plain on the San Andreas fault. "Most hedge...