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Other teaching hospitals are following similar strategies, with some variations. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, saw the managed-care wave coming and hatched a particularly wide array of responses. For one thing, it standardized purchasing of such supplies as knee braces and rods for broken bones. It orders in bulk and demands discounts. Meanwhile, Mayo has a thriving side business in newsletters, books and cd-roms...
...down-and-out men whose drinking has led them, in A.A. parlance, to "hit bottom." The veterans are being joined by younger people--and women, gays and minorities--as well as by those who are sent to A.A. as part of a court sentence. The newcomers often bring an array of ancillary problems to meetings, including emotional trauma and addiction to other drugs. As the organization metamorphoses, its supporters wonder whether A.A. can or should be such a big tent. "That's a real question," says George Vaillant, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an expert...
Indeed, Baldwin points to the diverse array ofpeople he met as "the greatest benefit of my[experience]" at the University...
...most inspiring thing about Harvard students for me is not their intellectual ability or their cultural diversity, but their involvement in a diverse array of campus and off campus activities. In my dorm, there were students who were actively involved in homeless shelters, varsity sports, the Theater at the Union, a jazz band and, of course, the campus daily newspaper...
Most of the abstract painting coming out of the School of Paris in the late '40s and '50s, except for Serge Poliakoff (sometimes) and the still somewhat underrated Nicolas de Sta?l, was either self-consciously pious (religious stained glass was a favored metaphor) or mock convulsive. A hideous array of bravura squiggles by Georges Mathieu, whom French critics, for a while, regarded as Europe's answer to Pollock, reminds you how shallow this rhetoric could...