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...major problem with the proposed Constitution is that it provides for no such leverage. At best, the student assembly would function as a student adviser to the Harvard administration, but it is hardly clear that the convention's brainchild would even do that efficiently...
Prosperity Training is the brainchild of Leo Sunshine, 28, a blond, muscular former jewelry dealer who legally changed his name from Brian Murphy. "Abundance is a natural state," declares Sunshine, who, with profits from his Oakland jewelry business, invested in gold and silver and says he is already rich enough to live off his investments. "I want to bring the fundamentals of prosperity to those who want to clear out their self-limiting attitudes and conditioning." As a teaching aid, he holds up-and argues with-a hand puppet he calls El Protecto, which is supposed to represent a little...
...irony." The consumer coalition last June 30 launched a genuine grass-roots campaign which targeted some 83 Congressional district. The goal was to get thousands of consumers "to shower Congress with nickels and letters" in support of legislation to create an agency for consumer protection. The drive is the brainchild of Congress Watch, a collection of eight lawyers who operate as Public Citizen's lobbying arm on Capital Hill, and of its director, Mark Green...
These taped messages, called "Helios," are the brainchild of Mark Roy, 47, a Los Angeles record producer who was tired of hearing the same boring messages on the phone machines of his friends and business associates. So far, Helios are available only in California and Baltimore, but $300,000 worth of them have been sold since January. The cassettes ($9.95 each) appeal to people who either dislike the sound of their voice on tape or are too shy to face a microphone. The company, Communico, plans to add a new series of messages with the voice-alikes of Columbo, Edith...
...Colgate course is the brainchild of Robert Trent Jones, the dean of American golf architects. Jones attended Colgate and drew up plans for a course as an undergraduate. The plans lay in a drawer for 30 years before an eighteen was actually constructed about a decade...