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...Anti-Social Behavior" (Opinion, Nov. 4): I was struck by Jonathan Jacoby's comment "many at Harvard...are (mis)guided in their so called career pursuits by the primary intension of selfishly accumulating inordinate wealth." As I understand his somewhat polemical writing students at Harvard who are going through recruiting are at fault because they take jobs largely based on the financial rewards of their work...
Rosenthal, who says he was not previously aware of Smith's case, says the difficulties may have resulted from an initial mistake by emergency personnel on the scene. Someone who has been struck by a car should always be taken to an emergency room, he says...
...mother, who has a heart condition and diabetes and was living all alone on a remote farm five hours away. Then Comes learned that HP was offering telecommuting as an option to its employees. She told her boss she would like to give that elective a whirl. She struck a deal to work three weeks a month from the family farm in Garberville, Calif., and one week from her Mountain View office; then she relocated with her husband and daughter. It was, she confesses, the best idea she'd had in a long time...
...private life, meanwhile, was marked by tragedy. First his son died suddenly in his mid-20s, killed by a heart attack that struck without warning during the traditional May Day ceremonies. A few years later his wife died with equal suddenness, the victim, friends say, of the same inherited heart condition. He has since remarried; his current wife Irina is a doctor...
...been able to shake the new government into shape. Ministers contradict one another in public. They unnerve the markets and the IMF with widely varying figures for the amount of new money that will have to be printed to keep the economy afloat. Primakov, meanwhile, has struck some visitors as strangely removed from the day-to-day business of government. A senior diplomat recalled a recent high-level meeting with the new Prime Minister. "We asked about foreign policy," the diplomat said, "and Primakov waved his hand and referred us to Ivanov [his Foreign Minister]." The delegation then raised trade...