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Which is not to say that wanting cosmetic surgery is necessarily a sign of illness. The Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery paper makes the point that most of those who have realistic expectations about what cosmetic procedures can accomplish are happy with the results. They know they won't look like a supermodel even if the best surgeon is wielding the scalpel. Rivers says that everyone can "be beautiful," which just isn't true, at least not on the surface. The beautiful wouldn't look beautiful unless they looked better than the rest of us. But I do agree with Rivers...
...high-performance teams. A team alignment is an opportunity for collective deep-think and re-evaluation and for the leader and his or her team to establish the blueprint for high performance. In Michaels' case, his team spent two intensive days in heated discussions about what they needed to accomplish, who was responsible for what and who had the authority to make which decisions. They called one another out on unacceptable interpersonal behavior: failure to share information, lack of follow-through, riding roughshod over others, unilateral decision-making, backbiting and subterfuge. Michaels made it clear that he expected...
...four spots at 3382, 3066, and 3032 points, repectively. Rookie Christine Reed captured seventh in the event with 2842 points. “The multi is an event that is unlike anything else,” Saretsky said. “One of the biggest thing we wanted to accomplish was to get our student athletes some experience, get one under the belt. It was really valuable.” Winning the high jump (1.99 meters), pole vault (4.55 meters), and hurdles (8.40 seconds), Chisam sailed to an easy victory in the heptathlon, while freshman Tyler Funk captured eighth...
...bill to provide universal access, as promised during the campaign, will nudge its way through Congress by next fall. Also coming in the first half of the year will be a comprehensive environmental policy, including some tough decisions on how to go about reducing carbon emissions. If Obama can accomplish any one of these, he will surprise a great many Washington skeptics...
Conservatives harrumph at all this adulation. Before declaring his greatness, we insist that we should wait for him to accomplish something for the country. (Spike Lee didn't even wait for the election. Last summer he said we were soon going to measure time by "BB, before Barack, and AB, after Barack.") In some of his supporters, we see the spectacle of secular-minded folk looking for a messiah. But we risk looking like spoilsports or sore losers, and we can sympathize with the excitement over the first nonwhite President, even if we would have preferred that someone else...