Word: alvin
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That sounds compelling, but so do the views of Dr. Alvin Poussaint, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who is black. "If you have a movement to fight racism, there has to be moral authority and moral consistency," he says. "That's what the moral dilemma is. At some point, we're going to have to face it, and Minister Farrakhan is going to have to face it. He can't be talking out of both sides of his mouth on the racism issue and not recognize and have no concern about how his own remarks are interpreted...
...training conformity to social expectations." The danger is that any campaign to hone emotional skills in children will end up teaching that there is a "right" emotional response for any given situation--laugh at parades, cry at funerals, sit still at church. "You can teach self-control," says Dr. Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "You can teach that it's better to talk out your anger and not use violence. But is it good emotional intelligence not to challenge authority...
...When Alvin Davis batted third, Mickey Brantley stole a few bases and Darnell Coles was the next Canseco...
...self-defense some composers simply write their own hits. Michael Kamen, a Juilliard-trained oboist, founder of the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble and composer for Alvin Ailey and the Joffrey Ballet, wrote the music for the No. 1 songs All for Love from The Three Musketeers and Everything I Do from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, both sung by Bryan Adams. Kamen recalls that he had to fight to get his sinuous, elegant main theme into the movie Don Juan de Marco. "The director [Jeremy Leven] hated the tune," he recalls. Yet when Bryan Adams lent his vocals...
...military's microsensors and omniscient rows of video monitors may be expensive, but much of the technology needed to attack information systems is low-cost (a computer, a modem), widely available (a willing hacker) and just as efficient (one phone call). "It's the great equalizer," says futurist Alvin Toffler. "You don't have to be big and rich to apply the kind of judo you need in information warfare. That's why poor countries are going to go for this faster than technologically advanced countries." An infowarrior could be anyone in the checkout line at the local computer store...