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...shortcomings that Gawande struggles to overcome in the field of medicine are the subject of his new book, “Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance,” which consists mostly of essays previously published in the New Yorker...
...ripe age of 41, surgeon and writer Atul Gawande has a lot to brag about. In addition to joining the faculty at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2003, he has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1998, served as a senior health policy advisor in the Clinton administration from 1992 to 1993, and is currently an assistant professor at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health...
...Yorker staff writer is the best-selling author of Blink and The Tipping Point...
...Yorker born and bred andvehement about my city, I thought Rudy Giuliani was a terrific mayor. He was a breath of fresh air after the dismal liberal hackery of his predecessor, David Dinkins. Giuliani made the city safer. He was an avid, detail-oriented manager, although he couldn't dent the city's school bureaucracy. He was an inspiring leader when the crisis came. He spoke his mind and did not suffer fools even a tiny bit--but then, creative incivility is part of the job description for a successful mayor of New York. I'm not sure, though...
...comedy that, however irreverent, is also genuinely powerful.Of course, premature adulthood is a fitting theme for a 22-year-old author who earned a two-book deal from Random House before his Harvard degree. Not to mention Rich’s arguably greater distinction last month, when the New Yorker published three pieces from “Ant Farm” in its humor column. Among Harvard writers, only John Updike ’54 managed to publish in the magazine at an earlier age.Rich and Updike are, not incidentally, both former presidents of the Harvard Lampoon. (Crimson form, tradition...