OUTPLACEMENT (It’s Not Like Having Your Balls Cut Off, Maybe Just Nicked a Bit)

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One Man’s Journey Through the Forced March of Outplacement

Do You Have to be Tall to Make it in Business?

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For men, height may still be a factor when career-making jobs are on the line. Merv Kaufman tells his story.

“The Clock is Dick-Dick-Dicking”

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Merv Kaufman reviews Thomas Mallon’s novel “Watergate.”

I Was Haunted By Fear That I’d Never Wake Up

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Merv Kaufman confronts his worst fear while lying on a gurney.

Turkish Baths and the Bedroom

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The Turkish bath is a legendary form of therapy. No surprise, then, that it leaves some with satisfying sexual side effects.

Why Suicide?

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Haunted by his father’s death when he was only 10, Eric Marcus produced a book that answers every imaginable question about suicide.