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...Zbigniew Brzezinski, former president Carter's national security adviser, hired Albright to work as a congressional liaison on his staff at the National Security Council. Brzezinski had been her Ph.D. advisor at Columbia...
...just the problem, insists Amsterdam psychiatrist Frank Koerselman, one of the few in Holland to buck the consensus. "Patients are scared by pain and the loss of their dignity, so they immediately start talking about active euthanasia," he said. "They are badly informed about alternatives." In particular, says oncologist Zbigniew Zylicz, who runs a hospice for dying cancer victims outside Arnhem, "the knowledge and practice are very low for palliative care," the art of easing pain in the final stage of a terminal illness. Zylicz estimates that a quarter of the 400 or so dying patients he has treated asked...
...father was the first of the intellectual mentors who sharpened her skills and toughened her hide. The other dominant figures, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Muskie, were known for their fierce, intellectual appetites and the grilling they put their students and colleagues through. Brzezinski, Albright's Ph.D. adviser at Columbia and later her boss at the National Security Council, could fillet an unprepared student in a second; he gave out so few A's that he wrote personal notes along with them. Albright became a favorite of his, and it was here, as one of the few female students in his class...
...earned her master's and eventually her Ph.D. at Columbia by getting up at 4:30 and squeezing in the studying whenever she could. She got her first political job soon after earning her doctorate, serving as Maine Senator Edmund Muskie's chief legislative aide. Her Columbia adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski brought her into the White House as congressional liaison when he served as Carter's National Security Adviser...
...Democratic Party, created from the remnants of communism in 1990, already leads a governing coalition in the parliament, and the President-elect will play a vital role in the creation of a constitution to guide Poland into the next century. "He is the Moses of the Polish left," declared Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, Kwasniewski's campaign spokesman. "He guided it over the stormy seas of politics to a new reality...