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There are some people in our lives who embody values like dignity, integrity and compassion – all the things that are good – and they’re powers of example for the rest of us. Vic Coudert, a lifelong Greenwich resident who served on the ethics board for 42 years, was one of them.   I knew [...]

I still remember the day, a long time ago when I believed in the inherent goodness of the workplace, that my boss stood up at a staff meeting with a remarkably innovative and unprecedented idea that everyone loved, including the big boss, who praised him to high Heaven. The only problem is that it was [...]

Throughout my career, usually because of convenience but more likely out of desperation, I always managed to take off the week between Christmas and New Year’s, and every year when I returned to East Elm Street on Jan. 2, my administrative assistant would ask, “How was your vacation?” Don’t you hate that question? Vacations, at [...]

  When Tribune Company bought Times Mirror in what was called “The Deal of the Century” by Editor and Publisher magazine, everyone thought the revenue would come rolling in, and this new creation would become the premier newspaper company in America, propelled largely by the “national buy” it could provide advertisers because it had properties [...]

A news story in the June 5, 1932 edition of The New York Times – after the Great Depression had begun to throw America into economic turmoil, upending the social fabric of the country, began: “Darwin’s theory that man can adapt himself to almost any new environment is being illustrated, in this day of economic [...]

Throughout my career, I estimate I’ve been to several thousand testimonials or more. I’ve sat through litanies of praise more effusive than the Monks of Santa Domingo, applause from person after person and wondered, “Can this possibly be true?” Sometimes the people being honored were scoundrels or self-serving, I thought. Other times, I theorized, they [...]

Richard S. Fuld Jr., Greenwich resident and chief executive of collapsed Lehman Brothers, testified this week before a Congressional hearing and said, “I feel horrible about what has happened to the company and its effects on so many.” He defended the compensation system that rewarded him with a package that lawmakers said totalled $485 million [...]

    On 43rd Street, along Fulton Sheen Place, a block from Grand Central and next to Market Café where office workers stand in clusters eating pizza, you’ll find the St. Agnes soup kitchen, where you can join the homeless and the hungry for a free meal a few times a week. And when I [...]

         Whenever I see those online ads with scantily clad women, I scratch my head and wonder: Can you really find love on the Internet … or just trouble?          I know a lot of people who tried and failed, a few who went on dates that ended disastrously, one who got married [...]

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