Sick Pay
Central Florida’s largest hospital operator sees the patient as profit center – to ill effect The day has come when somebody has to do in the hospital business what McDonald’s has done in the fast-food business and what Wal-Mart has done in the retailing business. Richard Rainwater, co-founder,Columbia/ HCA Healthcare Corp. Do we have an…
Widening the in-credibility gap
The envelopes, please, for the P.U.-litzer Prizes – the media’s stinkiest achievements of 1996;;It’s time now to reveal the winners of the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1996.;;This annual award recognizes some of America’s stinkiest media achievements. Every year, for the past half-decade, my colleague Jeff Cohen and I have pored through hundreds of submissions. In 1996,…
Profiles in mediocrity
While recuperating from back surgery John F. Kennedy wrote the Pulitzer prize-winning book “Profiles in Courage,” detailing the careers of politicians who took unpopular stands for the greater good. While recovering from holiday indigestion I thought I’d do the same about some of Central Florida’s finest. Today we profile the Orange County Commission, who two…
From terror, terrifying images
“Will There Be a New World Order?” Works by Marcia Annenberg, ;Holocaust Memorial Research and Education Center, Maitland, Through February 8, 1997 Marcia Annenberg wasn’t always obsessed with the Holocaust, and she wasn’t always a painter. In fact, the artist whose works currently are on view at the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center had…
