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While home in Arizona earlier this month, I was able to witness the royal send-off granted the state's favorite son, former Senator and Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Goldwater certainly received his share of praise while alive. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and saw his name adorn an airport terminal, a high school and numerous other landmarks around Arizona. He was also credited with planting the seeds of a conservative movement that would eventually produce the Reagan Revolution and the Republican take-over of Congress. Conservative columnist George Will was quoted as saying that...
...saw a political advertisement on television recently--for a candidate who spent his air time convincing viewers that he can be decisive. About what, he didn't say. To be decisive is apparently a rarity enough...
...popular entertainment shows like E.R. treat health issues. In fact, surveys conducted by this foundation show that 53% of E.R.'s regular viewers say they learn about vital health-care issues from watching the program, and 12% say they have contacted a medical professional because of something they saw on the show. As you noted, our foundation works with TV writers. One reason we do so is to help ensure that their portrayals of health issues are accurate and balanced. But to compare the public-health efforts of nonprofits like the foundation with those of for-profit companies pitching their...
Sorry, I couldn't resist, because like most people, I'm reduced to snickering adolescence when the subject of sex comes up. But Greenberg, a legendary freethinker, known for his unorthodox remarks, beguiling magic shows and his obsession with keeping office overhead down ("It's what killed the Egyptians!"), saw that Viagra could easily become one more way of separating the haves from the have-nots. His book Memos from the Chairman collects 17 years' worth of messages to his staff on ephemera such as returning every phone call, reusing envelopes and rationing cabs...
...Earlier, his much larger gifts--to the United Jewish Appeal, the Widows and Orphans Fund, the New York Public Library, among others--had elicited almost no attention. Known to be a pushover for a hard-luck story, he got this idea from a newspaper. "I saw an article saying that at $10 apiece, a lot of impotent men wouldn't be able to afford it. So I said, 'Kathy [his wife, who is on the board of the Hospital for Special Surgery, which will administer the grant], let's help,' and by Tuesday we had it done." The overreaction says...