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After nearly three decades of Third World self-help projects like digging wells in Ethiopia and advising on animal husbandry in Guatemala, the 6,500- member Peace Corps will turn to a new frontier this year: Eastern Europe. Starting in June, 120 volunteers will begin to leave for Hungary and Poland; an additional 60 corps members may soon go to Czechoslovakia. Peace Corps director Paul Coverdell says the first group will teach English, while future plans call for volunteers to assist in small-business development and environmental protection...
...partners have expanded their services to include weeklong individual beauty-counseling sessions (fee: $6,000) for women of all ages. They will introduce a line of Guyrex gowns this month, to be followed by a self-help video. But success has had its pitfalls. The pair, who complain of sniping by envious rivals, recently lost their Miss California Teen-USA franchise when the agreement came up for renewal. They retaliated with a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the parent firm, Miss Universe Inc. The company denies any ill intent toward the two. But Holt wonders, "Was it jealousy? There...
Jesse Jackson is one black leader who over the years has consistently preached self-help. Now he warns, "Our failure to become introspective and responsible takes away our moral authority." Nelson Mandela worked the same vein last week: "All students must return to school and learn." The lesson of Glory, proceeding out of black history, is that blacks are not powerless in the face of racism or poverty. The battles fought and won by earlier generations of blacks were immensely more difficult than those that face most blacks today...
Ladd, a former associate executive director of Oxfam America--an organization that supports self-help projects in developing nations, says she hopes to bring more minorities and women from the Third World to the institute...
...McGuane, both urban blight and rural isolation are symptoms of a deeper problem. "I do think that there's a kind of national illness, and I think that every American is touched by it," he says. "It's a by-product of this 20-year wave of narcissism and self-help movements and stuff where people have lost the ability to refer to things larger than themselves, and their reward is solitude. It penetrates Montana as thoroughly as it penetrates Manhattan...