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...principal Stephen Walters, but focuses on special-education students. San Pedro's impact counselors are simply dedicated teachers with a little extra training that consists of three to seven days of workshops and lectures, and the program depends on a federal grant that may not survive the budget ax. And there are only two suicide-prevention workers serving the 649,000 students in the Los Angeles school system--which is actually two more than many school districts in the country have...
...well known about Turner is what he thought the replacement for the frontier would be: state universities. They could take on the mystical duties for democracy that free land had once performed--with, of course, an academic twist. "The test tube and the microscope are needed, rather than the ax and rifle, in this new ideal of conquest," he wrote...
When Louis Gerstner arrived as CEO of IBM nearly three years ago, industry insiders saw the company's also-ran computer-operating system, called OS/2 Warp, as a likely target for the corporate ax. With just 13 million users, far behind Microsoft Windows' 120 million, OS/2 seemed doomed. But instead of killing the project, Gerstner beatified it, assigning the company's top engineers to it and giving V.P. Wally Casey a blank check for development. The results of the effort, code-named Merlin, will begin shipping to beta testers in the next month...
...hits (Cosby, The Golden Girls, L.A. Law) were past their prime, and Littlefield admits he didn't move fast enough to make changes. When Don Ohlmeyer, a former NBC Sports exec, was brought in to oversee the network's entertainment division in 1993, many figured Littlefield would get the ax. Yet he survived--even through the dark days when NBC was being derided for having lost Letterman, who initially drew great ratings on CBS. "The scariest thing was when Dave came on that first year," he says. "I really had to question all of my instincts." He attributes the late...
Phoebe Meryll (Anna Blair '98) loves Colonel Fairfax (Joel Derfner '95), but he's in jail and is about to get the ax. Luckily, the head jailer Wilfred Shadbolt (Martin Lebwohl '96) loves Phoebe. With the help of her father, Sergeant Meryll (Bob Grady), and her sparkling eyes and sparkling other things, Phoebe swipes the cell key from Shadbolt. But, thinking he'll be executed soon. Fairfax suddenly decides to marry someone, anyone, in order to prevent his estate from going to a greedy and conniving relative. Sergeant Meryll sets Fairfax free and orchestrates a totally unbelievable switcheroo which involves...