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...charge that the situation has been improving and that radical action was premature; others admit the need for reform but question the method. "We are guinea pigs," says David Mulholland, president of the Connecticut Federation of School Administrators, "and if this experiment doesn't work, the people who will suffer are our kids." Behind all is the question of what will be the driving motive: Improving schools or improving E.A.I.'s bottom line? "This whole business about it being a win-win situation, that they can serve their customers and profit as well, is too glib," charges Alex Molnar, education...
...workers in China in the next few years to build engines and excavators there. That infuriates Jerry Brown, who heads the U.A.W. local in East Peoria, Illinois. Says he: "They're selling the quality and technology that we helped build over the years. We're being forced to suffer from our own success...
According to flyers passed out by participants, factory farms are giant windowless warehouses which focus only on agricultural profits. Animals in these farms are treated as "food machines" and suffer from disease, overcrowding and polluted conditions, the flyers said...
Sure, the quality of play would suffer, she admitted--the Drysdales and the Aarons have certainly lost some of their "pop" at the plate or their "zip" at the mound. But even a field full of gray-beards beats a vacant lot of a diamond. Right...
...revelations that he smokes, and drinks fairly heavily. At 58 he is trying to scale back his incessant speaking engagements to about 25 a year, at $15,000 apiece. But the guru business, like the Mafia, is hard to retire from. He and his wife Lily generally suffer his adulators tolerantly, but they have been heard to refer to persistent hem-of-garment touchers as "leeches...