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...consequences of some cutbacks are less obvious, more insidious. The University of Maryland and the University of Massachusetts have cut library expenses and subscriptions to academic journals and postponed maintenance on buildings. They have trimmed back on teaching assistants, shaved the overall ratio of professors to students. "You can't see the damage now," says Sherry Penney, chancellor of U. Mass's Boston campus, "but in five years there will be no journals in the library, the best people will have left, the infrastructure will be falling apart...
...hand executives who still gave all the orders. But the new heroes of business are bosses and workers who view themselves as partners. So writes Charles Garfield in Second to None (Business One Irwin; 454 pages; $22.95), an account of such teamwork-based firms as Michigan's Steelcase and Maryland's Preston trucking. Garfield views these companies as the vanguard of a revolution that will turn top-down corporations into democratic workplaces...
...valid in The Beauty Myth was said in Ephron's famous essays on breast size and vaginal perfumes, and male oppression is nowhere better described than in her article on women in the magazine world. She was portraying betrayed women -- Pat Loud on TV, Barbara ("Bootsie") Mandel in the Maryland Governor's mansion -- long before she became...
...Maryland Congresswoman Constance Morella claims she is "afraid to go to sleep at night for fear of waking up and finding another agency has been moved to West Virginia." D.C.'s elected shadow senator, Jesse Jackson, says the migration "smacks of racism." That is merely Jackson's way of saying he doesn't like it. It's true the affected federal employees suffer the trauma of either uprooting their families or losing their jobs. But the same trauma is faced by employees of the many businesses enticed into the Washington area, often with the energetic help of these same members...
Last week the dogged challenger was out stumping on Christmas Eve. At a J.C. Penney in Bedford, he bought five pairs of socks, pointing out that when Bush made a symbolic shopping-mall foray recently it was in distant Maryland -- and that the President bought only four pairs. Despite his pluck and energy, Buchanan has severe handicaps: low budget, frail organization and an obsession with ideology that may confine his appeal to the right wing. If Buchanan concentrates his fire on Bush as an uncaring patrician whose feckless policies devastated New Hampshire's economy, he could attract some moderates...