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...everyone agrees. "There is no such thing as online therapy," says Dr. Thomas Nagy, a psychologist, Stanford professor and author of two books on ethics. "They're missing the nonverbal clues." For example, someone could claim to feel great but look disheveled and despondent in person. In an extreme case, notes Russ Newman, executive director of the American Psychological Association, a person could be talking to the online therapist while pointing a gun at his head; a dismissive comment from the therapist might just prompt the person to pull the trigger...
...skepticism is shared by some experts, including Alfie Kohn, an educator and author in Belmont, Mass. "Most of what passes for character education is behavioral manipulation, not an invitation to reflect on values," he says. "It's no way to transform a community to say, 'Today is Tuesday; it must be Honesty day,' or by giving kids doggy biscuits...
Spanish-language radio hasn't always received its due from advertisers. Early this year, a study sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission found that advertisers who spend $1 per listener for general-market stations pay only 78[cents] on comparably rated minority-formatted stations. Report author Kofi Ofori says he also found that 91% of minority-radio broadcasters had run into advertisers who had instructions not to buy time on urban or Spanish-language stations. A sales manager for a Spanish-language station is quoted in the report as saying that an account supervisor for a major car manufacturer told...
Still, some longtime aficionados fear that the new pop Latin wave could wash away important cultural connections. Esmerelda Santiago, author of the memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, says the current crop of singers being pushed by the major labels could use some skin-tone diversity. She feels the artists who are being promoted to superstardom mostly look Anglo, leaving the darker performers behind. "It's fascinating to me, and a little upsetting, that this is still the white face of the Caribbean," says Santiago. "I'm sure that there are equally talented and gifted artists out there whose facial...
...their high heels like stilts. Never vagrant or fussy, always economical, his line described conundrums that were at the heart of an artist's identity concerns: a little image, for instance, of a man with a pen whose drawn nib is drawing himself. To Steinberg, each drawing remade its author. It was both a mask and a card of identity, and a proof of existence as well. Never an expressionist, he liked, he said, "to make a parody of bravura. I wish to create a fiction of skill in the same sense that my writing is an imitation of calligraphy...