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...debate is not just academic. More and more people are seeking treatments for sex addiction that are modeled on those established for alcohol or drug dependency. Since Carnes opened the first inpatient sex-addiction treatment program in 1985, his method has been used with more than 1,500 patients. Four different nationwide support programs for sex addicts, patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous, boast a total membership...
Shelley Berman, who broke through to mainstream success, was in awe of Mike , Nichols and enamored of Elaine May. Nichols, a struggling Method actor from New York City, found his metier in improvised comedy and a partner, a lover and a nemesis in May. Everyone at the Compass played for laughs, but of all the hothouse talent there, only Nichols, May and a few others turned out to be playing for keeps. The Compass foundered in conflicting ideologies and ended in a welter of mangled egos and bad feelings. But it pointed the way to a kind of comedic theater...
...many Americans, Japanese math students seem like computer-brained superhumans who effortlessly outscore their U.S. counterparts. The image may be exaggerated, but the challenge is real. So a growing number of American schools are adopting the latest Japanese import: Kumon Mathamatex, a math- teaching method developed by educator Toru Kumon to improve his own child's performance...
...method, developed in 1958, has had considerable success in Japan. Last year Kumon sent an old friend, retired auto dealer Takayoshi Sogo, to try to sell the program to American schools. So far, 196 in the South and Southwest have taken the offer. "I didn't see any reason why this system wouldn't work in America," says Sogo. "We have merely taken universal techniques and applied them to give each student the self-confidence to tackle his regular math courses...
...cited the diversification of the studentbody and faculty, the creation of the KennedySchool out of "a small office in Littauer" andeducation initiatives such as the Core Curriculumand New Pathways, the innovative Medical Schoolprogram that emphasizes the case study method overtraditional classroom instruction...