Among other things that he alone decides, President Trump this past week pondered who might be honored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Kennedy Center Honors is an extravaganza of the first magnitude, in addition to being a sumptuous trove of television images and ...
The phrase 鈥渉ealth care鈥� in health care administration was a complete oxymoron and the least healthy job of my career, and remember, I started as a junior high band director. That music teaching job had me in a room with 120 tweens and teenagers, all armed with loud instruments and a ...
Q. My parents are sending me to a therapist. My family doctor thinks it would help me with my social anxiety. I鈥檓 afraid to go. What if the therapist tells my parents what I say? I don鈥檛 want anyone to know what bothers me. Will my friends know? Will my teachers know? I really don鈥檛 want ...
By Richard Robbins A nation that lies to itself about itself is in its essentials untrustworthy; divorced from factual reality, it is a nation doomed to self-deceit and self-dealing, such as to render it inoperable. We are on the precipice of becoming such a nation. The significance of ...
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Like about 55% of men at the time, my dad was a smoker. You know, there were commercials that claimed, 鈥淢ore doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette,鈥� and 鈥�20,679 physicians say 鈥楲uckies are less irritating.鈥欌�� Dad smoked Kent cigarettes that used asbestos in their Micronite ...
