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Even by Versace standards, the celebrity quotient at last week's spring ready-to-wear show in Milan was high. Demi Moore, Anjelica Huston, Peter Gabriel, Boy George and Cher all showed up. Linda Evangelista and NAOMI CAMPBELL made rare runway appearances. Even other designers, including Giorgio Armani, Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan and Miuccia Prada, came to offer support and perhaps to see what DONATELLA VERSACE, who has taken over design duties at the label since her brother's death, could do with a needle and thread. No one seemed disappointed--though it's hard to imagine anyone's being...
...fair, they now have science on their side. In 1995 psychologist and New York Times science writer Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, which contends that children's ability to recognize their own emotions, empathize with peers and deal with crises--their "emotional quotient," or EQ--influences their life chances as much as native intelligence. The book, now a paperback best seller, has had a catalytic effect. Rutgers psychologist Maurice Elias, a pioneer in emotional education, says he fields endless calls, E-mails and faxes from interested educators. "There is credibility now given...
...what can you expect from the culture that brought us Hercules? In the myth Hercules was a tragic figure: born with the strength to strangle serpents in his cradle, but with far less than the normal quotient of self-control, he kills his wife Megara and their three children in an inexplicable fit of rage and is condemned to perform his superhuman feats as a way of atonement. There's a lesson here, maybe, about the disproportion between human ability--mental or muscular--and our capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra...
...hard to walk past with a mere "hello." Inevitably, a conversation will arise about almost anything: Boston politics, Harvard politics, the politics of a new stadium in Southie or the politics of a good Sox season. And the conversation will continue until you feel guilty about your productivity quotient or until he gets a call on the two-way. Dan knows everyone on sight, inside and outside the house. He comes early, stays late, and unlocks the door for you before you're within earshot of his Bostonian voice. Truly as asset to the Universty...
...peers, must deal with an absurdly clueless parent (her mom doesn't know she's a vampire slayer); the insularity of generic suburbia (Buffy lives in familiar but fictional Sunnydale, Daria in Lawndale); and a dumb but popular nemesis, Cordelia, who sets out to test Buffy's coolness quotient on Buffy's first day at school. "Vamp nail polish?" Cordelia inquires. "So over," Buffy confidently answers. "John Tesh?" Cordelia persists. "The devil," Buffy replies...