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Parents do not, as a rule, encourage fighting among their children. Particularly one-on-one dueling with long pointy sticks. And yet, there was Mary Beth MacLaren last week in Austin, Texas, cheering on her 11-year-old son Rob as he engaged in exactly that type of combat. Of course, when Rob lost a bout at the U.S. Fencing Association's national championships, she would have been upset if he hadn't calmly taken off his mask and shaken his partner's hand. After all, Rob has been trained in the etiquette of the ancient sport since he started...
...your basic problem is communication, a family therapist might be more important than a business consultant," suggests Rob Singh, entrepreneurship professor at the University of the Pacific's business school. "If you can open the communication lines and face issues, you can move on." Neil Koenig, a psychologist from California and author of You Can't Fire Me, I'm Your Father, has recently included among his clients a family-business owner who is 93, another who is 82. "Fifteen, 20 years ago, these gentlemen would not have talked to someone like me. They would have thought what...
Hollywood, of course, is feng shui ground zero. Rob Lowe, whose career has seen plenty of mishaps, hired a feng shui consultant to renovate his on-set trailer for the TV show The West Wing. To attract positive qi, he installed a water fountain, rearranged the furniture and moved a mirror. The West Wing (audience: 12.9 million) is a critical and ratings success. To many in Hollywood, that's pretty much...
...progress to give up all rights to a private life just because it's possible to do so? Are we turning into some sort of automaton consumers who live for commerce, or will we retain the spiritual and emotional qualities that make us something more than consuming machines? ROB GLASER Chicago...
Suppose that a murder is done without hatred. Suppose, for example, that Matthew Shepard's killers had been motivated merely to rob him, in a dispassionate sort of way - strictly business? Would that dispassion ("Sorry, Matt, but we can't have a witness...") earn the killers 10 or 15 years off their sentence - time off for good behavior? In any case, Matthew Shepard's killers have been condemned to death. Would the people of Wyoming, or the gay rights movement, feel any better if the men had been convicted of a hate crimes violation...