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...persistently happy, fully-functioning normative individual by recourse to our determinate and inviolable “biology.” Sadness can be but is not always a result of “genetic vulnerability;” until Hyman, indeed, until Harvard College culture as a whole can avow sadness as a legitimate emotion and an understandable response, the student experience of alienation and disconnection will persist...
Annual raises used be almost a birthright at Avow Technology, an information-systems company based in Little Rock, Ark. "That just won't be the case anymore," says CEO Tom Allen. "When you show me that you are more productive and can deliver a higher level of service, the raises will be there. But they will not be automatic." During the past two years, Allen has levied a 10% pay cut across the board for everyone making more than $35,000 a year, restored it, then imposed it again. He hopes to avoid such measures in the future by doling...
...Just like me," he said, suddenly somber. "You have to be a little crazy to stand up to the Chinese government, but it's nuts not to." Exiled after 18 brutal years in prison, Wei was still as defiant as he was in 1978, when he decided to publicly avow his conviction that China could never truly modernize without democratic reform...
...would be absurd to imagine that the modern Dutch think that way now. For a sensible Dutch government, it makes sense to define the things that really matter in terms of the international opportunities available to its companies, and in the commitment to global environmentalism that its citizens apparently avow...
Major creative talents are starting to take notice. Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann (Miami Vice) and John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) were among a group of Hollywood producers who appeared before a convention of cable executives in Los Angeles this month to avow their interest in producing shows for cable. Martin Sheen has formed a production company to develop shows exclusively for cable. So has Shelley Duvall, a cable pioneer with her Faerie Tale Theatre series on Showtime. "In terms of creative freedom, cable television today is where broadcast television was in the 1950s," says Duvall. "Producers have...