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...Even before his Law & Order depiction of district attorney Arthur Branch, Thompson nearly always played variations on the same character - a straight-talking, tough-minded, wise Southerner - basically a version of what his supporters say is his true political self. And he is often cast as a person in power - a military official, the White House chief of staff, the head of the CIA, a Senator or even the President of the U.S. It could be called the Cary Grant approach to politics. As the legendary actor once explained his own style and success, "I pretended to be somebody...
...ethics institutes. “The biggest challenges are still what they’ve always been,” Thompson said. “In general, people say they want to talk about ethics, but they really want to avoid the subject.” Both Thompson and Arthur I. Applbaum, a professor of ethics and public policy at the Kennedy School, who will direct the center on an interim basis next year, said one of the center’s greatest contributions has been to bring together scholars of many different stripes...
...boys? Jocks have a rough time of it (a handsome prince is the villain of Shrek the Third and the buffoon in N'Ever After), supplanted by gangly emo types--fairyland Adam Brodys. "Charming" is redefined rather than repealed--Justin Timberlake voices Third's cute-boy hero Arthur--but at least that's some progress...
...PhRMA wrote in an e-mailed statement that “pharmaceutical marketing is one of several important ways for health care providers to receive the information they need to make sure medicines are used properly and patients are safely and effectively treated.” But according to Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, this relationship could translate into reduced quality of care for patients. Patients may receive drugs that aren’t the cheapest or aren’t best suited for them, said Caplan, adding that a neutral system...
...just raw energy, you just saw the man in constant motion. I picture him at one or two in the morning looking over the last proofs of the paper before they went to print,” said Arthur J. Langguth, Jr. ’55, who was president of The Crimson when Halberstam was managing editor. “He was such a newsman that if it came to a choice between giving the paper all he had and keeping up with his work in his classes, his coursework would suffer...