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...Finally, congratulations to David Simon, the brains behind the hbo program The Wire, which is the finest piece of popular entertainment I've seen this century. The Wire began as a series about the never-ending war between the police and drug gangs in the city of Baltimore, Md., but it has expanded to include the politicians, the schools, the dwindling white working class. Watching the show takes some effort; it's complicated, but every detail is delicious. It is, quite simply, the smartest show I've seen about the drama of public life, the corrosive cynicism of bureaucracies...
...Last year, Harvard Law School lost one of the nation’s foremost experts in election law, Heather K. Gerken, when she accepted an offer from Yale, which she said offered a better fit for her and her husband, David Simon, a scholar specializing in African politics...
...residents working shifts of more than 30 hours. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the body that accredits U.S. residency programs, has set standards that residents should work no more than 80 hours per week. But according to the president of the Committee of Interns and Residents, Simon Ahtaridis, the ACGME fails to enforce its own rules. Ahtaridis, whose group is affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, compared ACGME’s method of surveying residents to “the IRS passing out a survey to citizens asking ‘did you cheat on your...
...Thunder By Evan W. Thomas III '73 Simon & Schuster...
...stage each night performing in her first one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. What does she talk about? Her life, of course! From her iconic role as Princess Leia (remember the "bagel braid" hairdo?) in Star Wars to her marriage to singer Paul Simon, her father's affair - and subsequent marriage - to Elizabeth Taylor and her daughter Billie, whose dad, a Hollywood agent, turned out to be gay, almost nothing is off limits for Fisher. TIME's Jeanne McDowell chatted with the ever-forthcoming, never-boring Princess Leia about performing alone on stage, dear...