Word: vetted
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...best to compartmentalize, working 70 hours a week and then taking a month or two off to pursue his other interests. It was always exciting and always hectic but also an arrangement that he backed into, a reaction to life's inevitable twists and turns. "When I went to vet school, it didn't quite occur to me that being a veterinarian was an indoor job." In fact, Berger assumed he'd be a zoo veterinarian, but he found that world, in his estimation, "to have the worst aspects of the military hierarchy--just too regimented for my type...
...allocate the cash where it's most required. One warning: be wary of e-mails soliciting donations on behalf of specific victims or foreign governments. The hucksters and scammers are out in force. CAN I BYPASS THE BIG CHARITIES AND GIVE DIRECTLY TO LOCALS? Local organizations are tough to vet, but they have a certain appeal. Big international charities often have to work through a host country's government, which may have an agenda of its own (suppressing separatists in Aceh, to use Indonesia as an example). If you prefer a local charity, stick to those that have partnered with...
...tomboyish aspiring writer, Sutton Foster is a total delight, with gangly limbs always on the move, the comic timing of a vaudeville vet and a voice that can shake the balcony. She burst onto Broadway two seasons ago as the star of Thoroughly Modern Millie; she's even better here, a great singing comedian in the Carol Burnett mold. Maureen McGovern is a little stodgy as the mother, but the whole ensemble--including the men--meshes perfectly. If only the score by Jason Howland had a few decent tunes, Little Women might have been a real banquet. --By Richard Zoglin
...Koppel The Nightline king's contract ends later this year, and CBS is rumored to be interested in him. But would the ABC vet want the job? At least he wouldn't have to worry about competing with Letterman...
...that token, you might call Eleta P&G's chief backyard chef. As P&G's top ethnic marketer, she heads the company's Hispanic efforts from the division's headquarters in Puerto Rico. But the Panama City--born P&G vet doesn't spend too much time in the Caribbean--every month she spends a week or so in Hispanic hotbeds like Los Angeles, Dallas and New York City, managing retail relationships, meeting with customers. "She walks the stores, walks in the community," says Ernest Bromley, head of ad agency Bromley Communications, based in San Antonio, Texas...