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...Everyone in the social studies department does see him as such a guru," said social studies concentrator Manisha Bharti...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eminent Social Theorist Speaks | 10/29/1997 | See Source »

...people who shop at K Mart know what a drummel drill is [BUSINESS, Oct. 6]? Or a mandoline? Do they use these esoteric devices? Do they eat quinces regularly? I am amazed that life-style guru Martha Stewart thinks she can transform K Mart discount stores by capitalizing on her ideas for home decorating and cooking elaborate meals. Surely her success is due to her ability to sell a dream (not products) to thousands of would-be Marthas. Sure, we'd like to do all of the "good things" she tells us about, but those of us who shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 27, 1997 | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...child care are forming, bracing for confrontation. "It's very clear," says Hillary's old ally, children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman, "that child care is going to have a private-sector piece, a state piece, a community piece and a Federal Government piece." In other words, retorts conservative guru Paul Weyrich, child care is going to be "the new entitlement of the next century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HILLARY CLINTON: TURNING FIFTY | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...same breezy style that brightens his classroom lectures. He likes to quote Mae West ("Men like women with a past because they hope history will repeat itself") and Woody Allen ("I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics"), along with linguist Noam Chomsky, artificial-intelligence guru Marvin Minsky and, of course, Charles Darwin. Pinker has a showman's sense for knowing "when to hold his reader's attention with an illustration or a joke," observed University of Oxford zoologist Mark Ridley in the New York Times Book Review last week. "No other science writer makes me laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEVEN PINKER: EVOLUTIONARY POP STAR | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...just as Thompson seemed to have an illegal choke-hold on Wednesday's headlines, up popped Harold Ickes to wrestle them from him. "We played by the rules ? you, and only you, have the power to change the law," said the former Clinton guru. His opening speech to the committee was replete with references to Reaganite fund-raising, the President's right to drink hot beverages, and the GOP's aversion to campaign finance reform. Boil his speech down to two words, and it would have read: you hypocrites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coffee Battle Boils Over | 10/7/1997 | See Source »

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