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...questioning a colleague’s court testimony that there is no link between the short-term use of the popular painkiller Vioxx and severe heart problems.HMS Associate Professor of Medicine J. Michael Gaziano’s testimony this week in the New Jersey Superior Court broke from the published work of two of his colleagues, Assistant Professor of Medicine Daniel H. Solomon and Professor of Medicine Jerome L. Avorn.Avorn said that he could find no explanation for Gaziano’s ideas, as expressed in court. “You’d have to ask him that yourself...
...said that she was frustrated by the conservatism of the publishing industry when she decided to publish the compilation of short stories in book form. After being turned down by numerous agents, she went to a local Kinko’s and made 70 copies. For the next several months, she gave them to anyone would take them...
...characteristics that are least important to creating a diverse student body, in the grand scheme of things. It isn’t enough for colleges to claim that applicants’ responses comprise “just another piece of information”; so long as universities proudly publish their minority matriculation figures each year, this black-and-white indicator of identity will undermine efforts at creating real diversity...
Nevertheless, Khazen is mystified. He acknowledges that Al Hayat's editorials have consistently opposed "terrorism and extremism in the Arab world." But he points out that the newspaper has also been willing to publish interviews with numerous Islamic militant leaders to give these groups a chance to air their views. "We have been thinking hard and fast," he says. "I really did not pick a fight with anyone. I was very surprised that we received those letter bombs. We must have hit a nerve, but we don't know whose." (One possibility: an extremist group whose views Khazen refused...
...could have opted out of a book tour for The Year of Magical Thinking--she is, after all, grieving and famous--but she is very much of the show-must-go-on school. "If you're going to publish something, talking to people about it kind of comes with the territory," she says. "I didn't die. My life has to continue. I don't have an option." An orchid--Phalaenopsis, she says, and spells the word for me--stands in a glass vase on her coffee table. As we talk, Didion plucks one of its large, limp white blossoms...