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...this duplicitous approach reveals the false-hood of his contrition. And if the nation needs more evidence of how he truly feels, it need only look at his angry treatment of his Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala during last week's cabinet meeting, at which he was supposed to apologize for lying to his advisers for the better part of a year. When Shalala questioned the president's separation of political and moral authority, he reacted to her criticism by turning the assault back on her, further proving that he believes his actions are beyond reproach...
When Donna Shalala became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1988, the school's alumni and friends told her that in order to raise $400 million for a capital campaign, she would have to learn to play golf. There was no substitute, it seemed, for hitting up potential donors on the links. The university arranged for her to go to golf school for a week. "I had never had a golf club in my hand," says Shalala, now Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services--and one of the few Cabinet officers with...
...Shalala is by no means the lone woman out there on the fairway, at least not anymore. Networking on the golf course, long a part of doing business for male executives, has in recent years become par for the course for women. More than a fifth of the 26.5 million Americans who play golf are women--an increase of 24% over the past decade, according to the National Golf Foundation in Jupiter, Fla. And the barriers that once kept them off the links during prime tee times (when the deals get done) have been dropping like Annika Sorenstam's putts...
...Pomona, N.Y., where there are no rules about women, and she plays regularly with clients and colleagues. "I haven't closed any deals on the course," she allows, "but it's a very good opportunity to have someone's undivided attention." That is certainly what appeals to Donna Shalala when she gets in a round with her boss...
...past weeks, other groups have alsoprotested Shalala's indecision on the issue ofneedle exchange and asked for her to step down