Nice piece on BusinessWeek.com about how presidential administrations invariably reject the policies of their immediate predecessor.
Is there a gene for perenially losing The Big One?
Bill Haseltine has retired from Human Genome Sciences, and Chris Byron in the NYPost takes the opportunity to tear him a new hole.
I only mention this because, last fall, I sneaked out of a speech by Haseltine at a translational genomics event I was attending in Phoenix, AZ. Why did I sneak out? Because the Yankees had tied up game 7 against the Red Sox in the AL Championship Series, and were on their way to handing Boston its most soul-crushing defeat ever! There was no way I was going to miss that!
So I sneaked out on Haseltine’s hagiography and watched Mo Rivera mow down the Sox until Aaron Boone got up and hit a home run in the bottom of the 11th for aforementioned soul-crushing defeat. Did I mention that the Yankees season starts tomorrow (in Japan at 5am e.s.t.)? Go, Yankees! Down with Haseltine! I mean, down with Red Sox!
“That was Peter Sellers, my dear / Now go away,” he implored
Peter Ustinov died this weekend. I never really followed his work in movies and TV, but Lauren Christy did.