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...didn't matter that he was in his company's own backyard. When Aetna's new chairman, William H. Donaldson, approached the podium at the annual meeting of the Connecticut State Medical Society last month, he didn't expect a warm welcome. The audience was packed with his firm's sworn enemies, doctors who view the $26 billion-a-year health-care giant as the poster child for all that ails managed care, from draconian cost controls and reams of paperwork to heavy-handed negotiating tactics. Last fall the organization lobbied the state attorney general to investigate Aetna's allegedly...
...spent a term at the Claverly Senior House, into whose small courtyard on Saturday nights spilled revelers from the Pudding. They upset one roommate who used the dark space to watch the stars through a telescope whose lens he had ground himself. Another roommate invented and built a portable podium for the Glee Club...
Mattel Corporation, the maker of Barbie, has recently released "Presidential Candidate Barbie." Dressed in pearls and a blue suit, Barbie has her hair styled in a sophisticated blonde bob, a la Tipper Gore, and comes with a campaign pin and her own podium...
...that tangled the lines between fiction and reality. They went to the White House to have their pictures taken with their real-life counterparts, stopped at the New York Times's Washington bureau, and Allison Janney, the 6-ft. actress who plays press secretary C.J. Cregg, stood on the podium to open Lockhart's midday briefing. The show even got a validating blast from Republican House leader Tom DeLay, who--while admitting he's never watched it--declared it displays "disdain for [religious] faith." A cheap shot, ripostes Sorkin, about a violence-free series that idealizes public service...
...Starr put his hands on the podium. "This has been very unhappy for Arkansas. But, Clarke, unfortunately for the state of Arkansas, it deserved better government than it had," he said...