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Private security companies say they have never seen so much demand for their services by schools, which has some wondering whether chronically fad-driven school administrators aren't overreacting. Says Kenneth Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services in Cleveland, Ohio: "We tell people to calm down and think. There has been an explosion of overnight experts and charlatans. Schools are hiring all sorts of people with no expertise in school security." It's understandable, though, given the recent headlines, that principals and boards of education would rather be accused of going too far than have to explain...
...sham, of course. But we can learn a lot from the con jobs our public servants deploy, and so it is with this new fad of listening. For Mrs. Clinton--and now we really are being fair--is not the only politician who is lending us her ears. "Listening" has become mandatory in a state-of-the-art campaign, regardless of the candidate's party or ideology. As he was preparing his campaign, George W. Bush made clear he wasn't going to be a chatterbox, either. "I need to go out and listen to what people have...
They seem to realize that the flip side of phenomenon is fluke. Blair Witch, a film that antagonizes as many folks as it enthralls, could be as fleeting a fad as Deely Bobbers, and with no profound meaning for the future of film--except perhaps that struggling filmmakers with a marketable attitude will for a short, happy time be overpaid by studio bosses hoping against reason for another Blair Witch...
...tempting to write off this trend as a fad born of an economy that doesn't know when to quit, abetted by companies with more money than they know how to spend. But unusual offsites may be tapping into an economic shift that is more lasting than the bull market--the need for "soft" (interpersonal) skills in a quick-moving, unstructured service economy in which advantages are momentary and a slight shift in the business model can mean either big bucks or doom. "Because of all the complexity and chaos that we face in this era, we have to look...
...says a third of his male clients have tips, a look he has seen on a legislator at the state capitol as well as Mark Koehn, a 43-year-old local-news anchor. "You're seeing it in offices, and I don't really think this is a fad," Nowland says. "It's men evolving into the same degree of fashion rights that women have...