The London Independent: "Why isn't it at the heart of the popular repertoire? The tone is high-romantic, like Rachmaninov with a Nordic temperament and an American accent. . . . Perish the thought of anti-American prejudice"--A British writer, wondering why the American Howard Hanson, legendary Eastman School director and composer, isn't as highly regarded for his Symphony No. 2 as the European-born Kurt Weill is for his own (lesser, in the writer's opinion) second symphony.

Time: "Once we figure out how that gene functions, we could perhaps disrupt it pharmacologically"--Neurologist Ira Shoulson, commenting on a mutation in a gene implicated in early-onset Parkinson's disease that now appears linked to late-onset Parkinson's as well.

Shoulson oversees or participates in more than 20 multi-center clinical trials aimed at ameliorating or preventing clinical disability for Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases and attention deficit disorder.

Los Angeles Times: "If I were the new administration, I would not be throwing the alarms about downturn. You don't want to box Greenspan in"--Simon School Dean Charles Plosser, co-chair of the widely respected economic group, the Shadow Open Market Committee, speaking of then President-Elect Bush's early talk of economic troubles ahead.

Although it was generally assumed that the warnings were aimed at establishing an argument for a big tax cut, some analysts were concerned that they could dampen consumer confidence and make it harder for the Fed to pursue its strategy of slowing, but not stalling, the economy.

USA Today: "There is a collusion of silence when death is in the room. Death is seen as a medical failure"--Timothy Quill, professor of medicine, quoted in an article reporting on studies that show American doctors are often inadequate in helping their terminal patients die.

The problems range from not telling their patients and families when death is likely to occur to focusing too much on the debate over assisted suicide.

Patients who are dying need help with spiritual, financial, family, and other matters of "closure." "There is a lost opportunity here at the end of life," Quill said.

Cincinnati Enquirer: "When I was governor, I pushed the bell and everybody ran. Now that I'm a senator, the bells ring and I run"--A former governor-turned-senator, quoted by political scientist Richard Fenno in an article on the effects of role-switching in politics. Governors who move into the Senate often are confounded by an immediate loss of power and attention, Fenno said.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "It's a challenge to spot the things they still can get pleasure from"-Medical Center geriatrician T. Franklin Williams, former head of the National Institute on Aging, on caregivers' problems in coping with Alzheimer's.

"It presents a very large challenge to a family to come to accept that this downhill course is pretty inevitable, and yet may be slow, and that the caregiver's needs almost certainly will increase as time goes on," he said.

"And yet, the person who's affected may still be functional in a number of ways and may still get some enjoyment out of things they enjoyed earlier."

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