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...during the Microsoft trial, as a covey of reporters gathered around Boies, one of the chief opposing lawyers, John Warden, wandered by and cracked, "Ask him about his wine cellar." Warden might have suggested the reporters also ask about the gorgeous Georgian home that sits above those 8,000 bottles in Westchester County, N.Y., or about the oceangoing yacht, the Northern California ranch, the high-stakes poker games, the nearly annual chateau-to-chateau bike trips in Burgundy and Bordeaux. If Boies doesn't dress in the usual plumage of a flamboyant trial lawyer, it's only because he doesn...
...Chicago the Food and Drug Administration, acknowledging growing public concern, held the first of three public forums on g.m. foods. FrankenTony showed up, along with a covey of kids dressed as monarch butterflies, feigning death before a mock cornstalk--an allusion to the discovery by scientists last spring that, at least in the lab, pollen from g.m. corn can kill the butterfly's caterpillars. Not to be left out, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman was said to be considering the appointment of a panel of experts to advise him on the pros and cons of biotech. And in the surest...
Author Stephen Covey, cited in Andrew Ferguson's "Goodbye, Brave Newtworld" [ESSAY, Nov. 16], is on to us. Management consultants will suffer from the Gingrich fallout now that Newt's "thinking" has been compared with the "banalities...broken down and presented as 'steps' and 'affirmations'" in Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. For years, management mavens have been getting away with best sellers, that, like most of us passing through airport customs, have nothing to declare. Fortunately for the authors, few of their readers have ever read my 1984 article in International Management, "Sifting the Nonsense...
...Gingrich era may be over, but there will always be a market for bromides, like Covey's counsel to "seek first to understand." Newt is undoubtedly trying to do just that. FRANK O'MEARA Behoust, France...
...leader, definer, advocate, etc., Gingrich developed a series of ideas as large as his ambitions. His thinking was thoroughly schematic--in the manner, for example, of self-help books like Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, in which the banalities are broken down and presented as "steps" and "affirmations" and hence made easily digestible to the hungry hordes. Such books, in fact, seemed to be Gingrich's main source of inspiration as a thinker. He was mad for lists and jargon. In speeches and seminars he spoke of the triangle of American progress, the nine zones...