Reflections On Life & Death; Passover’s Special Meaning; Lessons From An Old Fruit Man 
As one gets older one becomes more familiar with death, and learns it gives rise to different emotions in different circumstances. With the death of my father, Michael Prevor, I find only a deep weariness. The eulogy I gave my father was really a way...
Keystone, Obama, and Leadership
Joe Nocera, wrote an astonishing piece in the New York Times titled, “Poisoned Politics of Keystone XL.” Most of the piece rehashes criticism of President Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, which is designed to bring oil from the ta...
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Ron Paul - And The ‘Pink Slip’
Jack Welch and his wife Suzy kicked off their new management column for Reuters with a piece titled “Ron Paul and the pink slip that could decide the election.” In it, the Welches try to apply lessons from how businesses fire executives to the politi...
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From Father To Son: A Letter Upon Beginning Sleepaway Camp
Visiting day at summer camp is in just three weeks. I’m told this is much harder for the parents than the children, and I suspect that is typically true. After I dropped off William, I stopped at the Roscoe Diner for lunch, about 15 minutes from the ...
Why Temporary Fixes Aren’t Fixes At All
Cornell economics professor Robert H. Frank has proposed a limited payroll tax holiday through 2012 as a promising solution to help solve the deficit problem and to grow the economy and get people back to work. Yet this plan seems to set us up either...
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As The European E. coli 0104:H4 Outbreak Causes Illness And Death, It Wreaks Havoc On The Produce Trade And Breaks Confidence In Public Health: Lessons From Europe
Our brethren in the European produce trade have suffered enormous damages as a result of the food safety crisis related to E. coli 0104:H4. One unfortunate part is that public health epidemiologists have come across like the Keystone Cops. Sitting in...
Men Not At Work
In David Brooks’ recent New York Times column, “The Missing Fifth,” he identifies a problem — fewer men are working. Yet, on the substance of the issue, Brooks takes what is clearly a matter of personal responsibility and turns it into an excuse for ...
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Kent A. Sepkowitz, M.D., Medical Experts & Patient Autonomy
The New York Times ran a piece by Kent A. Sepkowitz, M.D., a Vice Chairman of Medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center titled, “If Only All We Wanted Was Expert Advice”, and his point seems to be that people don’t really want experts; they ...
Lightning Rod - It’s Not A-Rod’s Fault He Got A Tax Break On His Condo
A-Rod has purchased a Manhattan condo in a newly constructed building. The developers took advantage of NY’s 421a program where developers who construct or create affordable housing on under-used land get their real estate taxes phased in over a peri...
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Tips On Chemotherapy
Recently our friend Jan Fleming began to let her family and friends know that she was soon to start chemotherapy. We thought it valuable to print this wisdom-filled letter of advice and tips for Jan and her husband, Tim, and the rest of our readers, ...
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