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...Reporting In "The Real War" [Dec. 25-Jan. 1], author Bob Woodward said, "It is almost a war without a home front ... There is a sense almost that we're not at war. I can't explain that phenomenon, but I find it deeply troubling." What's so difficult? As Woodward correctly pointed out, almost no one at home is being asked to sacrifice. If this truly were a national effort, everyone would be asked to sacrifice, and that would mean a draft, so the burden would be shared equally. But the Administration is afraid to even breathe the word...
...excerpt from her new book, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, about how the brain rewires itself, sometimes just by thinking. Daniel Gilbert and Randy Buckner answer the intriguing question: What does the mind do when it's doing nothing at all? (Hint: think H.G. Wells.) Robert Wright, author of Nonzero and The Moral Animal, offers a Darwinian take on how we make life-and-death decisions--and suggests that what passes for morality is often something else entirely...
Wright is a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Nonzero and The Moral Animal
...Moderately messy systems outperform extremely orderly systems," says Eric Abrahamson, Columbia University professor of management and co-author of A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder (Little, Brown). Abrahamson, a scholar of organizational behavior who admits to being a bit of a mess, says the costs of maintaining order are often overlooked. He and co-author David Freedman make the case that Americans' obsession with neatness has got us so frazzled about the slightest clutter that we're needlessly draining time, money and emotion from our lives in the hapless pursuit of order. Don't spend two hours...
...raise community hunger awareness, with plenty of classy cocktails and tasty treats waiting off the ice. Thursday, Jan. 18 from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. The Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St. $75 2)Guilt-free Procrastination Take a break from boring textbook reading to listen to award-winning author Vikram Chandra discuss his latest creation, “Sacred Games.” Chandra, who is being hosted by The Harvard Bookstore, will be reading selections from his highly anticipated novel at the Brattle Theater, providing the perfect mode of acceptable procrastination as you finish up studying for finals. Thursday...