In 2002, Moran landed a job at UCSF's Osher Center for Integrative Medicine managing an interview-based study of stress and coping in patients who are at the end of life as well as of their caregivers.
However, cultivating the conversational skills to manage an interview like a human conversation is a project that takes time.
At the time, I worked in PR for an animation studio; I was there to help manage an interview on board a hot air balloon with the Disney Channel Movie Surfers to promote an upcoming film.
I heard his booming voice over the phone but could not manage to finagle an interview with "His Excellency President for Life".
In "Embracing the Wide Sky" (Free Press, 2009), Daniel Tammet, a shy British math and linguistic savant, tells how he was able to learn enough Icelandic in a week to manage a television interview and how he could recite the value of pi to 22,514 decimal places by envisioning the digits "as a rolling numerical panorama" of colors, shapes and textures.
Such situations may be when the patient fails or refuses to cooperation or when it is too much an effort for the patient to manage a diagnostic interview.
Once a person I used to manage arranged an interview for me with two executives at an industrial machine company.
So the next interviewer who manages to get an interview with Rand Paul, or any of the other Tea Partiers, really needs to pin them down on this.
At the Factory, Warhol created sculptures; published a magazine, The Interview; and managed an electronic rock band called the Velvet Underground.
Finally, he managed to land an interview for a teacher's aide position.
If you manage to score an interview, you're halfway there.
