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...When I ask Pinsky if, perhaps, the test doesn't work on people who unwittingly outsmart it with their genius-level IQ, he assures me that the results were correct. Narcissists, it turns out, can't even fake humility through transparently self-deprecating jokes. So my desire to be in magazines and on TV and on the stage of your child's school play is not a problem. "If you were living in Greek times and decided you wanted to speak in front of the Athenian assembly, does that mean you're a narcissist or that you wanted to participate...
...celebration was premature. It remains almost impossible to accurately track the population of illegals using data from the census, which doesn't ask people their legal status. Harder still is to tell whether people are leaving the U.S. or simply deciding not to enter in the first place. (Many researchers believe it's the latter.) There's anecdotal evidence that more young workers are staying home in the south than before. Border-patrol arrests are down 24% this year on the U.S.-Mexico border. But for those who are in the U.S., the twin pressures - increased enforcement and a worsening...
...places like Washington and New York City, because that's where he grew up and his family's roots are. He met his wife while she was a graduate student of his father, who brought her home for a congratulatory dinner after she completed her Ph.D. When I ask whether she works, Zandi says, "With three kids and someone like me ... can't do it." He shakes his head. "She always tells me that I don't appreciate how hard...
...really see it that way. We’re pretty open to doing whatever kind of songs, hip hop and even classical stuff sometimes. I think we’re pretty different, but I can see where the comparison comes from. 12. FM: I’ll ask you a question I was asked in the class Music 1a here at Harvard: “To what extent is a musical work dependent on text to have meaning?”EM: Um, not at all whatsoever. It totally depends on the work obviously. A Bob Dylan song without...
...best way to be as recession-proof as you can be is to get skills in the humanities, which are flexible and universally valuable across all kinds of fields,” Steinberg said. She encouraged prospective humanities concentrators to ask, “What can’t I do with that...