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...Archbishop's political intrusion. The two men have since come to a consensus on the separation of church and state, even as they agree to disagree about abortion law. "The Catholic Church will not tell people what party, what politician to vote for," says Cuomo. "They will teach us, and should teach us, what they think about abortion." Yet a fundamental, more personal question lingers, unresolved: Cuomo, Ferraro and others argue that their private disapproval of abortion has no necessary bearing on their public, political attitudes...
...sports figures and a self-made millionaire, gave guest lectures at Harvard Business School in the late 1960s, he sensed in the students' questions an academic naivete about business. He thought they needed "street smarts." Now McCormack has helped out by writing What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School (Bantam; $15.95), a potpourri of tips for anyone who works for a company, runs one or wants...
Although Turkle suggests that computers have positive qualities-they teach math to the unscientific, for instance-addiction to them is a way to avoid human emotion. Jarish, 12, is a loner who relentlessly plays video games because, unlike people, they obey strict rules. "You walk out of the arcade," he says, "and it's ... nothing that you can control." Arthur, 34, bought a computer to speed up his architectural business, but spends hours at the console, "poking" and "peeking" into programs, an experience he likens to a sexual kick. Says he: "Sometimes I feel guilty when...
...athletes as possible to the Games, and the best that can be found, for they will make the city renowned at holy meetings in times of peace, procuring a glory which shall be a counterpart to that which is gained in war; and when they come home, they shall teach the young that the institutions of other states are second-rate when compared to their...
...drama in a local school. "He had a very coarse, rough voice then, with a heavy Welsh accent," says the senior Burton, who became his legal guardian, giving him a new home and a new surname. "We would go to the top of a mountain, and I would teach him to recite Shakespeare to me without shouting. He wanted to speak standard English, without the Welsh accent, and I had him read the part of Henry Higgins in Pygmalion." Young Burton probably had more in common, however, with Alfred Doolittle, the free-living dustman in the play, who, as Higgins...