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...certainly think the efforts on the part of the police to be in more touch with student concerns and be more accessible is a wise idea," Adams House Senior Tutor Michael J. Prokopow said...
...little Saturday-morning self-reliance is all well and good. But in many cases Americans are acting out of long-term necessity, unable to depend on a lifelong job or the pension that accompanies it. Those doubts help explain why more than 25 million American workers now take the wise step of investing in 401(k) and similar savings programs, up from fewer than 16 million in 1988. ``I'm looking out for myself,'' says Monica Phillips, 26, a Boston marketing executive who puts 10% of her $45,000 salary in her company's 401(k) and other investments. ``With...
...world of lonely females without Pym's wit and trenchant insight into character. Written from the point of view of a just retired bachelor businessman, George Bland, who becomes enthralled with a heedless, scheming young woman, A Private View (Random House; 242 pages; $23) is not only wise but funny...
...idealistic political activism; a socially maladroit loner (Michael Rapaport), who finds a dank spiritual home with the local neo- Nazis. The rapper Ice Cube is on hand as a perpetual graduate student and guru to the black activists. Laurence Fishburne represents adult authority as an arrogant, challenging and ultimately wise and sympathetic political-science professor...
...solution, some observers say, is simple: use information technology to break through the Beltway barrier. Ross Perot champions an "electronic town hall," a kind of cyberdemocracy that, via push-button voting, would let people make the wise policy decisions their so-called representatives are failing to make for them. And now, vaguely similar noises are coming from someone with real power -- inside-the-Beltway power, no less. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who last week spoke at a Washington conference called Democracy in Virtual America, is trying to move Congress toward a "virtual Congress." He envisions a House committee...