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...members of the search committee created to replace Michael P. Berry--the popular food guru who left the University last March for a position at Walt Disney Co.--later praised Mayer as an accomplished and responsive administrator...
...famously privatized, and reality, as in some dumbed-down version of Emerson, is often regarded as a vanity plate to be custom-made. In the privileged town of Santa Barbara, California, where I sit, the hills are alive with the sound of mantra--from John-Roger, the Texan guru of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, down the road; from the New Age preacher Marianne Williamson, closer to downtown; and even from the radio station on which I heard last week a minister speak rabidly of the Second Coming and Foxe's Book of Martyrs...
DIED. ALFRED SHEINWOLD, 85, contact-bridge guru; in Sherman Oaks, California. The 13 books and syndicated column he turned out for three decades initiated millions into the deeper mysteries of tricks, trumps and bids...
Although the world-renowned guru of corporate management was in the neighborhood to discuss the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), his effort to rebuild troubled urban areas, the local audience greeted with skepticism the erudite scholar who seemed to have all the answers...
...about the prospect of telemarketing calls from power companies asking us to buy their brand of electricity--not to mention entertainment and telecommunications services--when all we're trying to do is just make toast? Yes and no. "It's a 50-year jump all at once," says restructuring guru Michael Hammer, who is doing a brisk business in the utility field. "It's not all bad. It's not all good. It's different." When you flip a light switch, you probably couldn't care less where the power was generated, how it was routed or who sends...