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Twenty years after then President Derek Bok hired him as the first director of the University’s Center for Ethics, Dennis Thompson is resigning from the post, partly so that now interim president Bok can name his replacement. Thompson, also the Whitehead professor of political philosophy, will step down at the end of the academic year. Bok will personally oversee the search for a replacement. “Part of the reason [for stepping down] is that this year the Center is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and I thought it would be an appropriate time to step down...

Author: By Patrick T Mcgrath, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ethics Director To Step Down | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

...journalists, Gerberding quickly became the public face of the CDC--a rare cool head among a parade of increasingly confused health bureaucrats. The fumbling she witnessed behind the scenes convinced her that the CDC's troubles extended beyond the need for better communications. She made her case to Tommy Thompson, then Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), and within a year was appointed director of the agency--the first woman to hold that job--with a mandate to radically reshape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Ails The CDC | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...NEAL THOMPSON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Sports Books That Deserve Big Cheers | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

With clean-cutsponsors like Tide, the U.S. Army and Nextel fueling NASCAR's multibillion-dollar engine, stock-car racing's seedy past has been buried beneath the track. Thompson exhumes the sport's Prohibition-era roots in this colorful, meticulously detailed history. Painting NASCAR as "the accidental sport of Southern moonshiners," he recounts wildly entertaining stories of how late-1930s racing pioneers like Lloyd Seay, who was later murdered by his cousin, and "Reckless" Roy Hall, a jailbird, honed their craft during bootlegging runs, dodging the law on dusty Georgia back roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Sports Books That Deserve Big Cheers | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...time screaming wildly. Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), “Stranger Than Fiction” centers on Harold Crick (Ferrell), an obsessive-compulsive workaholic who suddenly discovers that his life is being narrated by the voice of British novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson).Needless to say, it’s a rather upsetting situation, especially when Eiffel announces Crick’s “imminent” death. From there, the plot proceeds predictably as Harold strives to live his life to the fullest and, of course, bag the girl...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Stranger Than Fiction | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

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