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...clear time slots." To help their sons, who take Ritalin, the Fells have employed tutors, psychotherapists and a speech and language specialist. None of this comes cheap: they estimate their current annual ADD-related expenses at $15,000. "Our goal is to get them through school with their self-esteem intact," says Bonnie...
...girls' troubled pasts draw them inexorably to men who cause them yet more trouble. The boyfriends and one-night stands on Models Inc. expertly deplete the women's self-esteem; they are men who make remarks like "Models -- you give them some money; you send them to clubs. Beyond that, they're worth nothing." But far more disturbing is the apparent belief among the leading male characters that a commanding sexual presence is best achieved by smearing one's hair with the whole Vavoom! product line. In real life Linda Evangelista goes out with Kyle MacLachlan; the men on this...
...patterns and assumptions that guide the behavior of young people growing up in desperate neighborhoods. Elijah Anderson, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that young black males have such trouble finding family-sustaining jobs -- the traditional mark of adulthood -- that they end up building their self-esteem through games that emphasize sexual prowess. Their babies become evidence of their manhood. "I ask why they don't marry the girl," Anderson says, "and they say, 'Because I can't play house.' That means they don't have a job that allows them to support a family...
...advance of the plutocrats can be attributed to several trends. With career politicians fallen from esteem, can-do entrepreneurs have stepped in to fill the vacuum. Then there is the huge cost of essential TV and radio campaigns. Political strategist Ken Khachigian estimates that a TV ad seen four or five times over a week by most of the Californian viewing public costs about $500,000. Challengers need lots of money to mount any serious campaign against most incumbents, who benefit from political-action-committee dollars and laws enabling them to carry money from one campaign to the next. Rich...
...Collegiality is weakened because, for aHarvard professor, the outside world offers a lotsof heady praise: awards, recognition, intellectualstimulation and the esteem of professionalcolleagues," Herschbach says. "Internally, thereis less of that praise to be found...