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...attractive paperback edition, the Catechism of the Catholic Church has been experiencing popularity among Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike. It's a kind of owner's manual for those who call the Catholic faith their own, a definitive statement of Catholic belief. At $19.95, some might say it's steep for a paperback; but it's worth every penny...
...this year's editor of the Confidential Guide to Courses, it was my duty to find the guts. To find the good and bad courses as well, but first and foremost to find those guts and expose them to the world. It's essentially a manual for slackers, and it sells very briskly...
Perspective, insensitive to the concerns of colorful women. We too admit puzzlement. After all, when it came to being p.c. Perspective was a veritable how to manual. Now it seems that our friends on the left don't practice what they preach. They've spilt so much ink over the years calling for greater sensitivity to minority concerns at Harvard. For all of these years, it's just been the pot calling the kettle black...
...Dangereuses as a fitting subject for an opera. It is an inspired choice: in the machinating Marquise de Merteuil and the voluptuary Vicomte de Valmont the composer has two soulless soul mates whose knowledge of the ways of love make The Art of War look like a kindergarten training manual. What Susa and Littell have created in The Dangerous Liaisons, now getting its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera, is nothing short of wonderful: a finely wrought near masterpiece that ennobles its characters with music that comes not from the head but from the heart -- hating...
...Quayle with brains and a degree in psychiatry. Call him God's golfer. It's hard not to roll your eyes when M. Scott Peck, M.D., personal-enrichment guru to the nation's conflicted upper middle class, author of The Road Less Traveled, a self-help manual whose sales have placed it on the New York Times best-seller list for the past 566 weeks, announces that he is sponsoring a $10,000-a-foursome golf tournament to promote "spirituality, golf and the fine art of business management." Business biggies will tee off this weekend at Peck's home course...