Word: selfhelp
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...show understands and the music biz often doesn't, says Cowell, is that "it's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of those things that actually make [performers] interesting." Cowell has led a rebellion against the tyranny of self-esteem that is promoted on talk shows and in selfhelp books--the notion that everyone who tries deserves to win. At bottom, people are booing Cowell for gleefully confronting us with a fundamental truth: some are more deserving than others. That may not make him America's idol. But somehow we don't think he minds. --By James Poniewozik
HANS FRANK, 85; NEW YORK CITY; international tax attorney An exile from Hitler's Germany, Frank has for four decades used his legal expertise and idealism to lead Selfhelp, a group founded to assist Jewish refugees. He has expanded Selfhelp's mission to include home care for the elderly of all races and, more recently, for AIDS patients. Now he is guiding Selfhelp's attempt to recover Nazi-seized property in the former East Germany, "a very fortuitous ending to my career that gives me great satisfaction...
...until she makes a life-altering discovery. The reason why trouble is so clinging and so dark is that it is a shadow closely resembling the klutzy figure of one Mrs. Brubeck. Marcia Sewall's illustrations provide precisely the right balance of half-remembered European tradition and modern selfhelp...
...their culture to this country." There are still many missionaries. John Paul had a tearful meeting with one, an 87-year-old Franciscan and fellow Pole named Zeno Zebrowski, who is famed for creating at least 30 of what are called "ant towns," communities for the poor based on selfhelp...
...about 2,000 voting rights throughout the A.A.P. membership. In general, the bigger the company, the more votes it will be able to cast. Categories are no longer confined to such elite fare as poetry and belles lettres. New subjects include such mass-market items as religion and inspiration, selfhelp, cooking, crafts, gothic romances, historical novels, fantasy, science fiction, mysteries and westerns...