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Visualize this: Timothy Draper, the gonzo venture capitalist from Silicon Valley, swoops into a South Central Los Angeles church to preach the gospel of school vouchers to a group of black ministers. He is introduced--by his own advance man--as "an instrument of God's hand, like Rosa Parks." Never mind that this is a 42-year-old multimillionaire preppie known to ski in boxer shorts and throw Frisbees at conferences, who even dressed as Batman to inaugurate a Manhattan office. Today, Draper tells the assembled pastors, he is ready to spend at least $20 million of his fortune...
...studies, Americans are working more and enjoying it less. Between 1995 and 1999, the number of people calling in sick because of stress more than tripled. "I've got a lot of clients coming to me from Silicon Valley," says Pam Ammondson, 45, who runs Clarity Quest, a Santa Rosa, Calif., workshop to counsel jangled burnout victims. "It's a dream to make a million dollars overnight. But these people are not happy, their relationships are miserable, and they're taking a step back to ask what it's all about...
...Paul was very passionate about certain political issues. And he could be very persuasive," says H. Clark Mason '75-'76, who is also a Crimson editor and now a staff writer for the Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press Democrat, who lived with Demakis sophomore year...
This month the ninth and 10th volumes in the 1 1/2-year-old series will appear: historian Douglas Brinkley's Rosa Parks and novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick's Herman Melville. Atlas' original notion--short biographies by great writers--may have been tinged with a little inspired hyperbole, but as general editor he has overseen the production of short biographies (roughly 200 pages each) by some very good writers indeed, including Garry Wills (on Saint Augustine), Larry McMurtry (on Crazy Horse) and Mary Gordon (on Joan of Arc). All the authors were paid advances from $50,000 to $100,000, and those...
...their logic. If they are not, the moms should try the other tried-and-true method of gaining political change. When marching doesn't get results, even when there's a million, civil disobedience is the next step. The moms should remember mothers of the past--moms like Rosa Parks and the suffragettes--who were willing to do much more than march for their cause...