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According to Catlin, the average undergraduate visitor to UHS Mental Health Services is meeting with a professional for the first time and needs only five or six visits to straighten out his or her concerns...
...Thomas McLarty, Bill Clinton's kindergarten classmate, just too nice a guy to be White House chief of staff? At first that appears to be the case: the mild-mannered McLarty greets a visitor with an open, guileless smile, an almost whispered hello and a courtly bow more suited to a maitre d' than to the CEO of a FORTUNE 500 company. He doesn't hold "meetings" or give "interviews" but instead likes to "visit" with friends and colleagues. Such humility might seem a hazard in the job that got the better of John Sununu and Sam Skinner...
WHEN JOHN WHITLEY WANDERS INTO the courtyard of Camp H, he is not just any visitor. He is the warden. The Man. Yet his presence stirs hardly a ripple. He inspects a flower bed, points to some asbestos dangling from a pipe. Mostly he just loiters, signaling that he is open for business. Slowly, as if they have all the time in the world (which, of course, many of them do), half a dozen inmates drift his way. One complains about missing laundry; another asks that recreational time be extended. All are polite, but none display the eagerness of someone...
...office that From shares with two assistants is strewn with unsolicited faxes, dotted with little yellow Post-it notes and littered with long-forgotten telephone messages stamped URGENT. From endures surprise visits from special-interest pleaders, insinuating state party officials and reconnoitering reporters. After politely thanking another briefcase-toting visitor for the 75-page list of "action items," From sighs. "This," he says wearily, "is my life...
Former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin, adistinguished visitor in public policy atRadcliffe's Bunting Institute last year, had beenconsidered the leading candidate for theEnvironmental Protection Agency...