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DIED The inspiration for Robert De Niro's character in Martin Scorsese's Casino, Frank (Lefty) Rosenthal ran four Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s and was labeled "the greatest living expert on sports gambling" by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Head of the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda and Marina casinos, he was famous...
But Eastwood's portrayal of the battle is also essentially accurate. Flags of Our Fathers zeroes in on the soldiers who hoisted the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi. None of the six servicemen seen in Joe Rosenthal's famous photograph--the iconic image depicts the second flag-raising attempt; the...
Meredith Rosenthal, a Harvard health economist, published a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2005 also finding that medical care improves under pay-for-performance projects. But while Rosenthal strongly supports such initiatives, she says it's imperative that they're designed properly. For example, she...
There's at least one undeniable benefit of pay-per-performance programs: they're forcing doctors and hospitals to pay closer attention to quality controls. Rosenthal points to diabetes care as an example. "Doctors may not yet be convincing every patient to have their blood sugar tested annually," she says...
The iconic image of Nazi Germany's defeat is Yevgeny Khaldei's photograph of a young Red Army soldier raising a Soviet flag atop the Reichstag over a smoldering Berlin in May 1945. That photograph is to the war in Europe what Joe Rosenthal's image of the planting of...