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...found it was very easy to get sucked into that population," says Dr. Victoria McEvoy, medical director and chief of pediatrics at Mass General West Medical Group, who has treated and written about the pitfalls of taking on high-profile clients. "One, because they're interesting people. But they're also very narcissistic in general, and needy, and as a result, if you want to be part of their care, often you can find yourself going beyond normal boundaries and going above and beyond what you would do for other patients." She adds, "It's very easy to slip over...
...sports terms anyway. Every city magazine has a "best of" issue whose every category is hotly debated. The stars the local paper gives out make or break restaurants by telling uncertain diners with limited money to spend where they can blow it with the minimum risk. Chefs like to say that they just want to feed people, or, more wussily still, "make my guests happy." But the truth is that they got into the business because they were creative and driven and wanted to do something special, and usually something more special than their peers. On the other hand, these...
Islamabad politicians and diplomats say that the military opposes any measure that might boost the current President, who was swept into power in 2008 on a sympathy vote for his late wife, Benazir Bhutto, assassinated the previous year. Zardari has been dogged by old corruption charges and his current administration has proved highly unpopular, allowing the army to take a commanding role in security and foreign affairs, and that includes dealing with Washington.(See the difficulties Pakistani journalists had covering the Siddiqui trial...
...people want Greece tossed out of the euro zone if it can't resolve its deficit dilemma without outside funding - a financial helping hand that a full 71% of Germans don't want their government to extend. Though no similar surveys have been conducted in France, leaders there say the public sentiment is much the same. "There are cultural differences for why the French wait for something to happen before reacting when the Germans respond as they see it developing, but opposition to a bailout - if that happens - is likely to be similar in both [countries]," says an adviser...
Still, obituaries for the Iranian opposition are premature. "This is a cat-and-mouse game that is going to continue," says Parsi. For all the postgame hand-wringing, many in the opposition say that whatever victory the government achieved on Feb. 11 was hollow. Indeed, in order to stage simple national and religious holiday celebrations, the government has had to mobilize hundreds of thousands of supporters, many from outside the capital, and deploy massive force, which belies its claims that the opposition is just a disaffected élitist minority. "By attacking the people on Ashura, the government lost its religious...