16 professionals and 44 support personnel at KKR.
Jensen says that LBOs make the most sense in mature industries-such as steel, chemicals, broadcasting, and brewing- where little further investment can be jus- tified. Public stock ownership still makes sense in fast-growth sectors where oppor- tunities outstrip company resources, such as computers and pharmaceuticals.
Private ownership of industry helped propel West Germany and Japan to eco- nomic success, Jensen believes. And to- day's corporate...
"Warning Symptoms" Ann Dudley ~o~dblatt,
in University of Chicago Magazine (Fall 1989), Robie House, 5757 S. Woodlawn Where Are YOU? Ave., Chicago, 111. 60637.
It is more than a slight exaggeration to say that doctors and patients now seem as likely to meet in court as in the consulting room. But the doctor-patient relationship is clearly not what it once was. How have things come to such a pass? Goldblatt, a lecturer in medical ethics at the University of Chicago, attributes it to a...
's] fear of sacred space, which is a fear of life lived what always appears to be the long odds of faith, goes with its reluc- tance to commit itself to the burden of distin- guishing between revitalizing fresh perspec- tives and faithless subversions. For lack of something worthy of reverential attention it must worship life in its precarious time-bound condition, which means that it must worship youthfulness.
lation by physicians, and perhaps no-fault malpractice insurance can help prevent doctors...
Dominic L. Lasorsa, in Journalism Quarterly (Summer 1989), Univ. of S.C., 1621 College St., College of Journalism, Columbia, S.C. 29208-
025 1.
Liberal critics were hopping mad in 1987 when ABC broadcast its tedious seven-part miniseries, Amerika. The miniseries' grim depiction of life in a Soviet-occupied United States, they exclaimed, would turn the American people into raving anti-So- viet Rambos. Although Lasorsa, a profes- sor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, does not m...
Dominic L. Lasorsa, in Journalism Quarterly (Summer 1989), Univ. of S.C., 1621 College St., College of Journalism, Columbia, S.C. 29208-
025 1.
Liberal critics were hopping mad in 1987 when ABC broadcast its tedious seven-part miniseries, Amerika. The miniseries' grim depiction of life in a Soviet-occupied United States, they exclaimed, would turn the American people into raving anti-So- viet Rambos. Although Lasorsa, a profes- sor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, does not m...
local policemen and Cincinnati Bell employees; a Columbus, Ohio, television station re-vealed Representative Donald "Buz" Lukens's (R.-Ohio) alleged sexual miscon- duct; the gambling charges against Pete Rose, manager of baseball's Cincinnati Reds, surfaced in Sports Illustrated and
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three Ohio newspapers.
Anonymous sources were vital to the development of all three stories. If every journalist shared Blake's high standards, Winternitz says, these shenanigans wou...
Norman Golb, in The American Scholar (Spring 1989), 1811 Q Street N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20009.
When Edmund Wilson published
The
culture "than writers have been wont to
Scrolls from the Dead Sea in 1955, he pop- suggest." ularized-and, indeed, helped to ce-But why were documents containing ment-the established scholarly interpre- this important, if only transitional, shift in tation of their origins. Only 8 years before, Jewish thought buried th...
George Weigel, in The Washington QuarterlyFor Democracy (Autumn 1989), 1800 K st. N.w., Washington, D.C. 20006.
It seems entirely natural today to find the Catholic Church in the forefront of the struggle for human rights everywhere from Poland to South Korea. In fact, writes Weigel, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, the Church's "conversion" is relatively re- cent, and it is not without problems.
As late as 1864, Pope Pius IX rejected out of hand i...
George Greenstein, in Astron-omy (Oct. 1989), 21027 Crossroads Circle, P.O. Box 1612, Wau- kesha, Wise. 53187.
Is our universe only one among many? Is it theoretically possible to create a new universe in a laboratory-from 20 pounds of chopped liver?
Not long ago, scientists would have scoffed at such questions. Now, reports Greenstein, an Amherst astronomer, astro- physicists and others have begun taking them seriously because of the work of an MIT physicist named Alan Guth.
In 1981, Guth f...
Rick Weiss, in Science News (Sept.
A New Andromeda
23, 1989), 1719 N St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Strain?
What if the AIDS virus could spread as eas-ily as the common cold?
That horrifying possibility is not ruled out medical researchers, reports Weiss, a Science News correspondent. Viruses have recently been found to possess an alarmingly high propensity to mutation- once in every 10,000 replications. In 1983, Tenn. "There are millions of us 'chickens' just waiting to be infect...