Word: counselors
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...without falling apart? What is so difficult about being consumer friendly? What is so difficult about offering a 100,000-mile guarantee and toll-free roadside assistance? Greed captured U.S. car companies 30 years ago, and Ford is being destroyed by it. Joseph P. Nolan Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. Counselor With A Conscience How refreshing it was to read the interview with human-rights lawyer Gareth Peirce [Sept. 18]. Finally, someone has the courage and insight to tell it like it is. It's both astonishing and highly depressing to see the lack of popular reaction in Western democracies...
...that it's "nothing new" and "old news" - the standard damage control response I remember hearing again and again from Clinton flacks during times of trouble in those years. "These are just gossipy snapshots of issues that have been covered ad nauseam," says Dan Bartlett, the President's counselor. Bartlett has the unenviable task this weekend of appearing on three Sunday shows to talk down the significance of the Woodward book...
...home state of casino-rich Atlantic City, developed what executive director Ed Looney says is the country's first responsible-gambling curriculum for grades K-12. The program emphasizes rational decision making and an awareness of the incredible odds against winning at casino games and the lottery. Counselors say the problem is that kids are inevitably exposed to gambling before they are developmentally prepared for it. "Younger children lack abstract thinking, so they believe that if they win, it's because they're special or because God loves them," says Brad Tucker, an addiction counselor in Peterborough...
...admissions undoubtedly “advantaged the advantaged.” With two separate pools and two separate acceptance rates—21 percent early and nine percent regular—there was a much higher chance of succeeding in Harvard’s early action pool. High school counselors who knew this would advise their students to join the “easier” pool while other students had no idea what they were missing. With a unified acceptance plan, all students will be judged against each other in one round which will by its very nature create...
...Forget it, say some. "They don't help," says Frank Walsh, college guidance counselor at the all scholarship selective Regis School in New York City. "Colleges would much rather you did a college-level calculus course last summer than interned at an investment firm" - one reason Regis gives students the option of internships only during the spring of senior year, when the application ordeal is over...