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...member wrote. "They say that she either does not hear problems or--because her technical limitations prevent her from fixing them--that she ignores them." The board became deadlocked, musicians vs. management. "The musicians clearly did not have her as a preference," says Decatur H. Miller, a 35-year veteran of the BSO's board. "It was painful." It was no picnic for Alsop either. "It was bizarre," she says, laughing ruefully. "It was like being caught in a black hole. I was like, Wow, what happened...
DIED. PAUL DUKE, 78, veteran political reporter for the Wall Street Journal and NBC News who became a Friday-night fixture on PBS for 20 years as moderator of the sober, erudite journalistic roundtable Washington Week; of leukemia; in Washington...
...started Amazon in his garage, Jeff Bezos has watched it grow into one of the Internet's powerhouses, with everything from a new search engine to a "screening room" for downloading short films. He sat down with TIME's Jeffrey Ressner in Amazon's Seattle headquarters, a refurbished veteran's hospital, to talk about books, stock prices and bird spikes...
...while all the rest are over 65, and John Paul Stevens is 85. Not since the mid-1980s has a Justice had such young children. "Frankly, they'll help keep him nimble because you get exposed to new concepts and new ideas, like the Internet," says Carter Phillips, another veteran of the Supreme Court bar. "Whatever the big developments are going to be, his kids are going to be right there." Many of the cases confronting the court deal not with the social issues that claim all the attention of warring interest groups but with business and commercial issues...
...especially when the drugs are combined with alcohol, as they often are. Pain medications, which are also powerful nervous-system depressants, are particularly dangerous--and especially prized. "If I have something good, like Oxycontin, it might be worth two or three Xanax," says a 17-year-old pharming veteran who was one of more than a dozen guests (and one of the few girls) at the New Jersey party. "We rejoice when someone has a medical thing, like, gets their wisdom teeth out or has back pain, because we know we'll get pills. Last year I had gum surgery...