CATHY STAZIO MCKITTRICK.(CAPITAL REGION)

COLONIE -- Catherine (Cathy) A. Stazio McKittrick, 43, died suddenly October 12, 1998. Born in Albany, she was a lifelong resident. She was employed as a homecare giver for many years. She was a communicant of the Church of St. Francis deSales in West Albany. She was the daughter of Kate Kille Stazio of Melbourne, FL, and the late Michael V. (Muzzy) Stazio. Wife of Joseph F. McKittrick; mother of Christopher Stazio of Melbourne, FL and Joseph McKittrick of Colonie; sister of Michael J. Stazio of Colonie, JoAnne Silverman of Clifton Park, and …

Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare CEO tells employers: Let workers help choose plan.

Byline: Robin Lord

Dec. 11--Double-digit increases in health-insurance premiums will continue unless employers do more to involve workers in the process of choosing a health plan, says the top executive of Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare.

The most common response by business owners to rising health-insurance costs is to shift the increase to employees, Charles Baker, CEO of Harvard Pilgrim told members of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce at a breakfast meeting in Hyannis yesterday.

As a result, in the four years from 2000 to 2004, the average worker's share of a family's insurance went from $1,620 to $2,700 -- a 67 percent increase, he said.

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Bush returning to the Mideast with tempered hopes for peace agreement before term ends

When President George W. Bush began his first energized pursuit of an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord just over five months ago, confidence was his constant companion. "I'm optimistic," he said over and over about the prospects for ending one of the world's longest-running disputes within little more than a year.

As the president prepares to leave Tuesday for a Mideast trip, his second in four months, he is trading that unfailingly upbeat tone for something a bit more reserved. He was due to arrive in Israel early Wednesday.

It is a nod to Mideast realities.

Old barriers to peace such as distrust, violence and little movement on the …

Heal Thyself? // Stress, Drug Access Lead Many Doctors To Substance Abuse

While he was in medical school, Al, a 46-year-old familyphysician, felt "a hole inside of me that needed filling." He filledit with alcohol.

By the time he was practicing at a major academic medicalcenter, he was getting drunk nightly to escape from feeling insecureand also from his distress over being a closeted homosexual.

"I drank in isolation. I needed to drink to deal with stress.I needed to drink to get to sleep," he said.

Eventually, he said, the alcohol and the hangovers began to getin the way of his work.

"My problems were painfully obvious to my colleagues. I waslate to work. I called in sick all the time," said Al, who askedthat his …

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`Be Cool' runs amok in stream of old scenes.(Life - Scene)

Byline: ROGER EBERT Universal Press Syndicate

John Travolta became a movie star by playing a Brooklyn kid who wins a dance contest in "Saturday Night Fever" (1977). He revived his career by dancing with Uma Thurman in "Pulp Fiction" (1994). In "Be Cool," Uma Thurman asks if he dances. "I'm from Brooklyn," he says, and then they dance. So we get it: "Brooklyn" connects with "Fever," Thurman connects with "Pulp." That's the easy part. The hard part is, what do we do with it?

"Be Cool" is a movie that knows it is a movie. It knows it is a sequel, and contains disparaging references to sequels. All very cute at the screenplay stage, where everybody can sit …

Evita convenes Kitchen Kabinet to help the underprivileged.(News)

BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH

HIGH society ladies with more than a little influence in the world of business were treated to a grand lunch at the Cape Grace yesterday by the most famous white woman in the country.

Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout, dressed in black out of respect for the recently departed former state president PW Botha, had convened her first Kitchen Kabinet. The tough issues Evita wished to tackle lay at the heart of the Darling community where she has built her famous "peron".

Three years ago Evita, aka Pieter-Dirk …