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...recent months Josephson has conducted seminars for such diverse groups as the New York State Bar Association, Levi Strauss & Co. and the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. In January he spent eight days in Berkeley Springs, W. Va., teaching 55 senior executives of the Internal Revenue Service, who in turn will pass on what they have learned to the agency's 14,000 managers. Alaska asked him to draft a model ethics bill last year that is still pending in the state's legislature, and Tennessee is considering its own reforms based on the Alaska model...
...Bois was born in New York City and graduated from Barnard College in 1927 with a bachelor's degree. She received a master's from Columbia University in 1929 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley...
...fact, the campuses that have been experiencing the most problems have names like Berkeley, Standford, Oberlin, University of Michigan, Amherst, Dartmouth and so on," he said. "It is almost safe to say that the more the campus appears to be publicly dedicated to fighting racism, the greater the volume of racial incidents and racial tension on those campuses...
...final question is this: Is the simple life just a passing fancy, a stylish flashback of the 1960s? Not so, say people who have studied both eras. Contends Berkeley sociologist Robert Bellah: "It's no longer messianic, the way it was in the '60s, but relatively pragmatic. That may give the present mood a greater staying power." That's good, because the American generation now reaching middle age has a lot of promises to keep -- not to mention mortgages to carry, tuition to pay and lawns to mow. No wonder they want to keep it simple...
Castro's down-to-earth origins helped. Reared on a northern California cattle ranch, Janice studied English literature and city planning at the University of California, Berkeley. She began as a reporter-researcher for TIME in 1973, then became a writer. She eventually joined the Business section and was promoted last year to associate editor. During the past year, Castro has written major stories on the defense industry, the economic devastation of U.S. airlines and the Matsushita buyout...