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...suggests, the press should pay more attention to criticism from the "ideologically inclined." But how? By playing up fears and suspicions that the press itself believes to be exaggerated? The press remembers when it headlined every wild accusation by the late Senator Joseph McCarthy without checking his facts. That lesson in irresponsibility the press has no need to unlearn...
...likely to be those companies that can adapt to the special demands of the Japanese market. Says Byron Battle, an undersecretary of economic affairs for the Massachusetts Office of International Trade: "In Japan, you have to sell it their way, not the Great American way." That is a lesson as old as world trade. --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported by Yukinori Ishikawa/Tokyo, with other bureaus
Each story is told with gentle self-mockery, teaching the inexhaustible lesson that appearances are deceiving. The actors understand that the essence of being stylish is ease and zest, not straining for artificial mannerisms. Pownall (also author of Master Class) merges the wry, knowing voice of the novel's narrator with the character of Mr. Bennett, whom Austen describes as "a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve and caprice." That fusion provides a moral center, and Kiley gives perhaps his finest performance since Man of La Mancha as a father who really does know best. --W.A.H...
...gloriously rude, insufferably arrogant. He dislocates respectable convention with everything from his table manners to his sexual morality, eventually bedding every female in the house, including the maid. Having gained the Whitemans' attention and the audience's complicity in his outrageousness, Jerry manages to teach everyone a lesson or two about living a little more freely and, maybe, happily...
...nation's military health care system." There is a more insidious problem: physicians will not pass judgment on colleagues. Billig was fired from two private-sector positions before he went to Bethesda. But he could have found another job in a private hospital and still be practicing. The lesson to be learned from this episode reflects not just on the military but on the entire medical community. Joyce Gelfond, M.D. San Antonio...