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Michael Wilson (Senior Scientist, Smoking Issues): 1989 UK

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The Neediest Cases: Feeding a Hunger for Skills, and Finding a Future

This year, the numbers of those feeling themselves among the neediest have stretched, like the wallets of the city itself. To the ranks of those who have needed food, or clothing, or a place to live, or a prosthetic limb, or an electric wheelchair, add ...

From MICHAEL WILSON, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies,  New York Times Company

Let’s Take It Outside

IT all started pleasantly enough: Boy meets Girl. Girl visits Boy’s apartment in Greenwich Village, near New York University, where they are students. Boy and Girl hang out on his fire escape one night, enjoying a smoke and solving the world’s ...

From MICHAEL WILSON, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York University,  Judith Sheindlin

Michael J. Wilson: DC Archdiocese: Desire to Discriminate Greater Than Duty to the Poor

"If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog" was the headline for the satiric magazine National Lampoon in 1973. Accompanied by this photo of a cute black and white pooch with a man holding what looks to be a .38 special at its head, it was ...

From MICHAEL J. WILSON, Huffington Post,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael J. Wilson,  National Lampoon, Inc.

On Nov. 23, 1963, Some People Really Did Marry

“This could have been an awful day,” said the character Roger Sterling on Sunday night’s episode of “Mad Men,” speaking to a half-empty wedding reception. “But here we are, not watching TV, but together watching the two of you.” (See related Arts Beat ...

From MICHAEL WILSON, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Internal Revenue Service,  John Fitzgerald Kennedy,  Roman Catholic Church,  Thomas Jefferson

Finding Some Facts for the ‘Mad Men’ Fiction

THE name on the door says “Sterling Cooper,” but the real star of the show is New York City, home to many of the Mad Men and to the advertising agency that keeps them in booze, cigarettes and first-aid kits in case of foot amputations. While “Law & ...

From MICHAEL WILSON, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Brett Johnson,  Matthew Weiner,  Google Inc.,  American Airlines,  Don Draper

Michael J. Wilson: Insurance Companies Want Caviar on the Gravy Train

Insurance companies have been playing nice on health care reform. If you sell a product, and the government requires every American to buy it -- even subsidizes the cost for people who can't afford it -- what's not to love? On October 13, the Senate ...

From MICHAEL J. WILSON, Huffington Post,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  White House,  Michael J. Wilson,  Max Baucus

Michael J. Wilson: Shopping for Health Care at the Thrift Store

A group of conservative Democrats walk into a health care reform store... Yes, unfortunately it is the beginning of a bad joke even though the issue is not a joking matter. We've all done this at some point. You visit a store in search of an item that ...

From MICHAEL J. WILSON, Huffington Post,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Congressional Budget Office,  White House

Local Stop | East Village: Returning to Music’s Old Home

Those flat, round, black things with the hole in the middle that your father keeps stacked in his man cave: they’re called vinyl records. Back in the day, when the “desktop computer” was a calculator and downloading was something dump trucks did, ...

From MICHAEL WILSON, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Whitney Houston,  Bob Seger,  Simply Red (musician),  Miles Davis

Returning to Music's Old Home

Chester Higgins Jr./The New York TimesA nice place to start a day hunting down vinyl in the East Village is Other Music, 15 East Fourth Street. Those flat, round, black things with the hole in the middle that your father keeps stacked in his man cave — ...

From MICHAEL WILSON, NYT: City Room,  8 Oct 2009

Michael J. Wilson: I Plan to March for LGBT Equality

It will be an historic day -- the day that divides the past from the future. Going forward there will be, "Before the March" and "After the March." Before the March, nobody thought that tens of thousands of people would march for marriage equality. ...

From MICHAEL J. WILSON, Huffington Post,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael J. Wilson,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Karl Rove,  Thurgood Marshall

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