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DIED. GLORIA HEMINGWAY, 69, transsexual youngest son turned daughter of novelist Ernest Hemingway; in a Miami jail cell. Born Gregory, the former physician wrote Papa: A Personal Memoir in 1976, battled alcohol addiction and had her medical license revoked. Her famous father once said Gregory had "the biggest dark side in the family except...
...never told exactly why young intern J.D. Dorian (Zach Braff, center) decided to become a doctor. Maybe he watched a lot of TV, whose M.D.s have traditionally had power, money and sex appeal. But in the real world, the physician-as-God is as dated as house calls and generous insurance plans, as J.D. discovers during his first day on rounds. His bosses care more about cash flow than care; he spends less time saving trauma victims than artificially prolonging the lives of patients who are all but dead; and the hospital is like a high school, where the cocky...
...February, with Sulzer Medica facing possible bankruptcy, one of its U.S. executives rang his buddy Joe Cunningham, a physician prominent in Texas, to brainstorm. "My basic idea," Cunningham says, "was to get somebody who thinks like a plaintiff and see how they would respond to this." He called Richard Scruggs, the Pascagoula, Miss., trial lawyer whose efforts forced big tobacco into a $246 billion settlement in 1998 and who is working with Cunningham in a crusade against managed-care companies. Though Scruggs styles himself an advocate for the little guy, he is also a sucker for big, gnarly cases...
...board was chosen over the summer by Thompson and Rosenthal. Summers could not partake in the decision because Rosenthal is his personal physician, creating a conflict-of-interest...
...told interrogators that bin Laden is only one of two or three chieftains in al-Qaeda. Many bin Laden watchers and even ex-associates have observed that bin Laden appears to be a simple fighter without a brilliant head for tactics. His lieutenant, Ayman al Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician who heads the Egyptian al Jihad, which took credit for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981, is often mentioned as the brains behind the operations. U.S. federal prosecutors have asserted in court filings that al Jihad "effectively merged" with al-Qaeda in 1998. Mohamed Atef, al-Qaeda...