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...colored” and “white” schools outlawed by Brown, but their legacy persists and African-Americans cannot wait for others to solve the problems of educating black children. They have the political potential to solve some of the problems themselves by heeding the self-help adage: “The solution is not always out the window, it is sometimes in the mirror...
Harvard’s system of self-help contribution is a great thing. It helps me get out of bed in the morning and go to classes I help pay for, study books I bought and eat meals my own money goes toward. But like many of my fellow classmates, it’s a rare semester when I don’t sleep through a class or two or skip a few meals in Annenberg. I think I can count the amount of times I’ve eaten breakfast in the dining hall on one hand. Roughly speaking...
...Beauty? Oh, for Christ’s sake, I thought, now I’m screwed. I started flipping to other pages in the little magazine, and I happened upon an article titled, “Great First Impressions.” Most of the piece was thinly-veiled self-help tips, with subheadings like, “Making Every Second Count.” Some gems: When a woman meets a man, she knows within five minutes if she wants to sleep with him or not; attractive people are more likely to be promoted (damn those 10 secrets...
...television audiences are responding. On Home & Garden Television and the Food Network, among the fastest-growing ad-supported cable networks, the nonperfectionist programming is scoring the highest ratings. The Food Network's roster of shows launched in 2003 reads like a self-help catalog for cooking enthusiasts: Easy Entertaining and Everyday Italian as well as Lee's Semi-Homemade...
Having trouble with your spouse? Try this: when you arrive at a relaxed moment, "make agreements... to be used as guidance in critical times, especially during a fight." That gem of wisdom comes from Twenty Practical Ways to Educate Your Wife, a self-help tome making the rounds of publishers in Jakarta. Its author: Ali Ghufron, a.k.a. Mukhlas, the self-confessed mastermind behind the Bali bombings of 2002, which claimed 202 lives. Mukhlas, while appealing the death sentence he received in October, kept himself busy in his Bali jail by penning his marital guide and two other books...