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Having an advanced degree, of course, is no bar to updating your skills. Take the case of Eva Wisnik, 35, a New York City career strategist and executive recruiter, who found that a special one-week $875 program in Fairfax, Va., on administering a career-assessment test was more valuable to her than her M.B.A., which cost $20,000 and took four years to complete on a part-time basis. "I have earned at least $45,000 from administering this test to about 900 people over the past few years," she reports. "This is far more than any actual earnings...
...involved are not rogue thinkers. Courts across the country routinely return children to their biological parents despite prior neglect and abuse. In April a judge in New York ruled to reunite a five-year-old boy with his mother, who had killed her other son in 1994. In Figsboro, Va., a woman was allowed to retain custody of her eight-month-old daughter despite being charged with fracturing the infant's skull; the baby was stabbed to death on Mother's Day, and the mother has now been charged with murder...
...overpaid, that nobody was that good. But no more. He's turned playing basketball into an art form. He is the Lord of the Hardwood Floor, a unique athlete and classy human being. We've seen basketball played with perfection by the greatest player ever. JOHN L. HORTON Norfolk, Va...
...grim. Far more accurate was your reference a few months back to the American Spectator as a "gleefully anti-Clinton magazine" [Nation, April 13]. That captured the spirit. Somehow, political ineptitude can be as amusing as it is dismaying. R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Editor in Chief American Spectator Arlington, Va...
...They made 86 cuts and changes ("mutilations," said the author), but the work still became an American best seller. Last week Thomas Jefferson got to say the last word, every single one, when the full draft of his Declaration of Independence went on display at the Newseum in Arlington, Va., on loan from the New York Public Library. An angry Jefferson underlined Congress's changes. One of its telling deletions: a denunciation of King George for maintaining slavery...