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...Charles Marsala, mayor of Atherton, California, the wealthiest zip code in America: "We moved our conversation into the main house, and as we talked Marsala walked me down a hall of famous photographs, many of them of his apparently legendary backyard parties, often showing guests as giant chess pieces. One shindig had a Venetian theme, complete with a gondola, which, in one photo, was being navigated in the pool by the largest shareholder of General Electric. 'He collects army tanks,' Marsala said, shaking his head and chuckling, as if the man collected scrimshaw or hermit crabs. 'He has about...
Laurie Shepard, ATHERTON, CALIF...
Michael T. Ty, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and neurology resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, died in a construction accident that killed three people in downtown Boston on Monday. He was 28. A native of Atherton, Calif., Ty was driving down Boylston Street when a 10-ton lift platform suddenly collapsed and crashed onto his Honda Civic. “[Ty’s] life was cut tragically short before he had the chance to deliver on all his promise; he was destined to have a stellar career as a physician-scientist...
This is entirely appropriate, for the movie's subject is superbrainy young people, non-nerd division. They have been recruited to a double-dome school at the M.I.T.-Caltech level by slick Professor Jerome Hathaway (William Atherton), who has an explain-it-all science show on TV and a Government contract to build a particularly unsavory laser-powered weapon. His students do all the hard work, while he glides, snakelike, through the corridors of power. Among his drones are Mitch (Gabe Jarret), an innocent 15-year-old prodigy; Kent (Robert Prescott), who is teacher's pet, half toady, half Gestapo...
...manufacturers of Paxil and Effexor about a risk of suicidal thinking in pediatric patients on these drugs, and the Food and Drug Administration is calling a hearing to review data. None of this comes too soon for those of us who believe these drugs can cause tragedy. Sara Bostock Atherton...