My Father By Leonard Zwelling In preparing the book I am trying to publish (and it is looking very good, but still a lot to be done), I needed to find a picture of my father. The book is dedicated to him, a pretty standard product of the Depression in the Midwest–Zanesville, Ohio to […]
The Need To Be Believed-What the Cosby Accusers Really Want By Leonard Zwelling I’ve been a fan of Bill Cosby’s since I, Spy and Noah. I actually saw him live in Las Vegas at about the same time (1982) that one of his recent accusers had him drugging and raping her. I cannot successfully
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Trust By Leonard Zwelling That word is everything, isn’t it? Marriages are built on it. Soldiers in combat depend on it. Football and basketball teams live on it so much that it is one of the five fingers of Coach K’s fist-communication, TRUST, collective responsibility, caring and pride. Duke basketball teams are built
The Lost Narrative of MD Anderson: What Ever Happened to “We”? By Leonard Zwelling There were many things about MD Anderson that startled us when we got here. Houston was an open, friendly place that was the antithesis of the cold, impersonal Washington, DC we had just left. At MD Anderson, people went
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Failure, Innovation and Truth By Leonard Zwelling Now there are three words that are not often in the same sentence. The front cover of the NY Times Magazine on Sunday, November 16, is called “In Praise of Failure” and trumpets the Innovations issue containing a host of articles about inventiveness and the critical
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Extra: A Few Films For You By Leonard Zwelling It was way too cold and rainy to play golf. Thus, the movies! Here are three we saw this weekend worthy of a look. Interstellar-This movie is big. No, really big. We saw it on IMAX and that wasn’t big enough. But it is not
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Yale, Moral Relativism and the Highly Variable Cost of Bad Behavior in Academic Medicine By Leonard Zwelling Have you been following this story in academia? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/us/yale-medical-school-sexual-harassment.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A5%22%7D The NY Times has been on this one for a while, but I have not seen it elsewhere. To make a long story short, the married
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The Confusion Sown By Islam By Leonard Zwelling I am no expert on comparative religion. However, the latest flap launched by comedian and talk show host Bill Maher about the uniquely violent nature of Islam really doesn’t help answer the question that most Americans are struggling with. What is the correct posture of
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It’s Not Just Law, It’s Law AND Order; It’s Not Just Crime, It’s Crime AND Punishment By Leonard Zwelling http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/08/justice/pennsylvania-doctor-cyanide-poisoning/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Just in case you were thinking that MD Anderson is the only academic institution at which one faculty member tried to poison another who is his or her lover, here’s a little morsel from
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Don’t Ask the Question If You Don’t Want to Know the Answer By Leonard Zwelling This is really good advice. It is often given to defense attorneys about asking their clients whether or not “they did it.” In general, it works for everyone. How about some examples? In the early days of the
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