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Simplify Your Life with Kids is straightforwardly written, without gimmicks or jargon, and shows some familiarity with the real world. In all this it is an atypical self-help book. Stephen Covey, on the other hand, has the format down cold. His genius is for complicating the obvious, and as a result his books are graphically chaotic. Charts and diagrams bulge from the page. Sidebars and boxes chop the chapters into bite-size morsels. The prose buzzes with the cant phrases--empower, modeling, bonding, agent of change--without which his books would deflate like a blown tire. He uses more...
...microfilm the front page of the New York Times for Oct. 4, 1951, the day after the game. He discovered something that produced what he now calls "a hush in my mind": the Giants' triumph headlined three columns wide on the left and a headline in an identical format on the right announcing a Soviet nuclear test. "Different kinds of conflict," DeLillo remembers musing, "two shots heard 'round the world...
...McDonald's in Harvard Square, which is not the case. In addition, the sidebar to the piece, "Caution: Square Contents are Hot," should have been a place where the concerns of both the Harvard Square Defense Fund and McDonald's were analyzed more thoroughly and in a more unbiased format. The sidebar is a bit more balanced, but falls short in sampling the variety of student and community opinion on the topic. Calling page five of the newspaper "The McHarvard Crimson" is obviously meant to be amusing, and I took it as such...
Often parents are chagrined to find they cannot do mathematics in a non-skill-and-drill format and therefore assume these lessons are of no value to their children. CONSTANCE KELLY West Bloomfield, Mich...
...Microsoft-Apple deal is that "Art may cast a brighter light in the short term, but Commerce generally wins big in the final tally." The truth of the matter is that Commerce invariably needs Art in order to win big (e.g., the Windows imitation of the Mac icon format). Conversely, any artist honest enough to admit it will acknowledge the value of Commerce in his success. In the final analysis, the average consumer doesn't care who wins, Apple or Microsoft, Jobs or Gates. All we want is a product that gets the job done quickly, efficiently...