Len Zwelling

Hidden in Plain Sight: The MD Anderson “annual report 2015” By Leonard Zwelling          It makes fascinating reading, this “annual report” (lower case letters on cover). But I’m like everyone else. First, I look at the pictures.          I was shocked at how few of the faculty pictured in the human interest stories were high […]

A Long Slog By Leonard Zwelling http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-defeat-radical-jihadism-1458862004          ISIS is not interested in shared governance.          ISIS wants a Caliphate and wants to call all the rest of us who do not adhere to their version of radical Islam heretics and martyrs for a bad cause. This is not a maybe. This is a for

The Latest Chronicle Nonsense  http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Major-reset-7213593.php “While the last five years under DePinho’s leadership have been mixed, with much disappointment over ethics and spending, in addition to his top-down leadership style, all institutions – particularly those that have enjoyed a large measure of historical success – have employees who question the need to change. Yet change

MD Anderson Hawai’i By Leonard Zwelling          I guess it was bound to happen. MD Anderson has flown across the Pacific to land in the Hawaiian Islands at The Queen’s Medical Center: http://queensmedicalcenter.org/cancer/md-anderson-affiliation          How do I know? As John Fogarty said, “because I saw it on TV.”          During a commercial break on CNN,

Too Late To Stop Trump?; Too Late To Fire DePinho? By Leonard Zwelling          If the GOP truly is not represented by the awful things that Donald Trump has said about women, Muslims, immigrants, and Mexicans specifically, the time for the party to say so has been over for quite a while. The GOP leadership

The Aveo Fraud By Leonard Zwelling https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/03/29/sec-charges-biotech-aveo-with-misleading-investors/yGs9lcKVl8i2NlcoolH72L/story.html https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2016/comp-pr2016-59.pdf https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-59.html        The article from the Boston Globe  and the SEC release summarize the 30-page document released by the federal court in Massachusetts. The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against Aveo and three of its executives for fraud in not telling investors about the request

Close To A Whitewash By Leonard Zwelling http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/DePinho-s-big-fight-7182843.php http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/DePinho-s-big-fight-7182843.php?t=b8a62a8186438d9cbb&cmpid=twitter-premium          I am five time zones from you as I write this. I didn’t get on the Chronicle web site until 11 PM your time on Sunday when I read the above article. I am sure many of you have already read it.          I have

You Can’t Unring the Bell By Leonard Zwelling          This is a phrase often used by lawyers (at least the ones on Law and Order) to protest testimony in open court that might be prejudicial to their side because once something is said, even if an objection to it is sustained by the judge, the

Conflict and Creativity By Leonard Zwelling          I spent the morning of March 21 at a seminar on creativity called “The Architecture of the Mind.” It was about how the mechanics of human thought processes influence group dynamics and creativity.          Although the majority of the concepts about group dynamics, groupthink, perception, bias, and the

Political Pornography By Leonard Zwelling “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [“hard-core pornography”], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it” —US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1964          I