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...also unlikely Ovitz will take the suggestion made by James Glassman, in another Post column, that he divert his severance to charity. If he did, he would be breaking the first rule of major executives: get paid no matter what...
...Internet has become such an inescapable part of modern life that it was only a matter of time until some watchdog of etiquette claimed the turf and started drawing boundaries and making rules. Still, credit Judith Martin, the author of the syndicated Miss Manners advice column, with considerable alertness in spotting a tiny void in the decorum field and then moving in with well-wrapped parcels of wisdom about the Net and other conveniences of late 20th century life, like the answering machine and the fax. Though one might suspect her of being a grumpy traditionalist in these matters...
Readers will find much that is stylistically familiar in Miss Manners' Basic Training: Communication (Crown; 179 pages; $15)--referring to herself in the third person, often amusing in a column but overly arch at book length, and using the locution Gentle Reader. The text is largely a response to letters Martin has allegedly received. It starts off jauntily enough with what Miss Manners likes about life on the Internet: "Cyberspace is like space on the open seas, free of some constraints that should be observed on land." Watch out, though. Already gentility is rearing its well-coiffed head...
...everlasting. Governments must do their best to educate their people about the need to save energy. Citizens must play a part in energy conservation in their daily lives, or oil prices will not come down. Kenny Tan Singapore How to Help the Poor Joe Klein's Column "Let's Have An Antipoverty Caucus" [Oct. 3] perfectly summarized my thinking about programs for the poor. As a middle-class Republican, not an ultraconservative, I want better things for our country, but I do not want to support someone for life and perpetuate a cycle of poverty and welfare dependence...
Michael Gould-Wartofsky ’07 is a government concentrator in Kirkland House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...