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A piece describes the manifold accomplishments of National Institutes of Health Director Harold Varmus, who has won bipartisan support for the research center, focused the NIH on nuts-and-bolts research rather than disease-of-the-week fads, and artfully guided the human genome project.
They were the visionaries, he was the nuts-and-bolts guy.
(It was partly my passion for Haynes' films that led me to accept a job offer from his indefatigable producer Christine Vachon last year to collaborate on a nuts-and-bolts book about producing, Shooting To Kill . So my review of Velvet Goldmine --like my review of Vachon's other recent release, Happiness --should be read as the work of a partisan.