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Evidently the imps are powerful enough to influence even a Nobel laureate. Hence the strange ambivalence of The Penitent. This "new" novel was first published in 1973. It exhibits Singer's narrative mastery, but none of his compassion; it offers only one character, Joseph Shapiro, and he is so acrimonious that in an afterword, Singer disavows his own creation: "While I was brought up among extremists who thought and felt like that angry man... I cannot agree with...
ACTION TAKEN this past summer by an advisory committee to the NIH offers hope and signals a bureaucratic step in the right direction. The NIH gathered experts from around the world to discuss a possible reclassification of the liver transplant operation. Irv Shapiro, a spokesman for the panel, says that "after extensive review, we concluded that liver transplantation in therapeutic for certain liver diseases." The panel deemed untherapeutic transplants for those with alcohol or drug related liver diseases; those patients make poor candidates for transplants, the panel determined. But for children like Jorie and Brett, the panel concluded that...
...affection between Taylor and Burnett rings true, at least initially. Burnett plays a real estate agent who has lost her spouse and her moral compass in a suburban landscape of manicured lawns and unfaithful husbands. She embraces promiscuity as a form of psychic masochism. Her new friend, Deborah Shapiro, is a wealthy divorcee with an enormous empty house that she calls "my Tara." Trained only "to walk down stairs with panache," she is no longer a Jewish American princess but a full-fledged dowager queen. With her raucous voice and laugh, Taylor brings this character to exuberant life. When...
...handling relations with the board and the public and within the company. Says one board member, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton: "He is very possibly the brightest chief executive I've ever dealt with. But he did have some difficulty expressing himself." Yet former Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro, another board member, says that this has not turned out to be a problem. Says he: "The beautiful thing is that Opel has come out of his shell...
Claudia F. Shapiro...