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Hurricane Katrina destroyed the couple’s home and “90 percent of their stuff,” Hill told the Los Angeles Daily News in an interview this past September...
...gesture to the telltale gold-fringed palanquin and the turbaned figure of the emperor. I note how he is enveloped by a halo. A Mughal durbar, I tell Mukesh. Maybe Jahangir. Perhaps Akbar. But certainly not Aurangzeb—he didn’t go for this artsy-fartsy stuff...
...people to ‘view’ women as leaders? Get all the men on campus together and say, ‘Hey guys, girls are really smart and cool, too. You should start thinking of them as leaders and asking them to run for stuff?’ Give me a break.” Those people have a point—telling men to support women candidates is not the best way to go about business. If anyone is going to be able to fix the problem of women leadership in Harvard’s political groups...
...logos and drug names, and the occasional steak-house dinners are supposed to mean nothing to us. But 10 minutes of rapt attention from a smiling beauty is still 10 more minutes than usual. So what if she's talking about nausea, vomiting and diarrhea - we talk about that stuff too. Every doc I know thinks he or she is above truly being influenced by drug reps. Professing ourselves wise, though, we generally become fools; I eavesdropped on the medical marketing world when I repped medical devices for a summer job in college - the reps knew what suckers docs were...
...Secondly, many doctors rely on reps for practical information. Someone has to show the doctors the new stuff they can prescribe, or the new procedures they can do using new medical equipment. "Well, that's why there are laws about continuing medical education (CME)," you might say. The problem is that the CME apparatus is ungainly and practically impossible to standardize. As an orthopedist, I can get all the CME I need listening to lectures on handwashing and diversity sensitivity - and then poison my next patient with the wrong dose of a new drug...