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parents should brace themselves before reading this latest book on bringing up children. Sensitive types won't be far into Raising an Optimistic Child (McGraw-Hill; 239 pages) before the fear hits that they've messed up their kids. Husband-and-wife authors Bob Murray and Alicia Fortinberry don't dismiss the role genes play in shaping us. But they focus on the ways parenting can set up a child for a lifetime of joy or misery. "Bad parenting" is a phrase they're not afraid to use, and to their minds it encompasses much more than blatant offenses like...
...unlikely that the authors wanted to upset anyone. Murray, a clinical psychologist, is jovial and courteous in a professorial way; Fortinberry, a therapist, exudes warmth but also a fragility that betrays her long struggle with depression, won but not forgotten. Though they're blunt about the consequences of poor parenting, they don't criticize parents. "We live in a society in which damage is rampant," says Fortinberry, "in which it's impossible to bring up kids the way we're meant to bring up kids...
...Still, Giuliani's southern strategy may be an uphill climb. "It's a real stretch for Giuliani to get out voters in southern Republican primaries," Richard Murray, head of the University of Houston's Center for Public Policy said. "He has too much baggage to get through the southern primaries." Murray said Giuliani's best shot may be as a "ticket balancer," a moderate vice president to a conservative ticket leader, especially if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee.If that were the case, and Rudy got to take on the senator from New York, he would feel right at home...
...million is roughly the same size it was at the beginning of President Bill Clinton's second term. And they point out that Bush has not vetoed a single bill since taking office. "It's hard to veto something from a Congress dominated by your own party," says Murray Weidenbaum, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan, "but Bush should have been tougher on the spending side. That's been a disappointment...
...able to achieve such specialization because it is taught by a rotating team of four professors in the fall—Liu, Senior Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert A. Lue, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Daniel E. Kahne, and Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics Andrew W. Murray. Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Erin K. O’Shea will join the spring teaching staff.According to Brian N. Tse, one of two Head Teaching Fellows for the course, the rotating lecturers are a benefit rather than a detriment.“The professors’ lectures mesh...