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...American parents smothering their children? Hara Estroff Marano, an editor-at-large at Psychology Today magazine and the grandmother of three small children, is convinced that they are. In her provocative new book, A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting (Broadway), she writes, "Behold the wholly sanitized childhood, without skinned knees or the occasional C in history! Kids need to learn that you need to feel bad sometimes. We learn through experience, and we learn especially through bad experiences. Through disappointment and failure we learn how to cope." TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs spoke with Marano...
...they sent in the CIA, who duck-taped this man from head to toe, stuffed him in a small, plywood box, told him they were going to have unlawful carnal knowledge of his mother and shipped him off to Cairo, where he was waterboarded by Egyptian authorities. Lo and behold, he said that there was a link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. That information was used by Colin Powell in the United Nations as a prelude to war. A year later, after the war had commenced and after we are now in Iraq, the CIA says, "Whoops, sorry...
...author sets forth the seven (of course, seven) disciplines of the trusted adviser. These include commonsense attributes such as thinking strategically, developing a management perspective and advising constructively. The payoff for being influential, says Lukaszewski, is having power. "Actually seeing your recommendations become marching orders is something amazing to behold and to achieve," he writes. But don't forget: the boss always gets the credit...
...your attention span (or workload) can’t get you through half an hour of TV, behold the eight-minute online drama...
...plunging into a recession. The proximate cause is irresponsible mortgage loans made to people who can't pay the money back. The deeper cause is, at least in part, years of too much borrowing and spending by Americans, both as individuals and collectively through the government. But behold: there is?oh, joy!?bipartisan agreement on a solution. Although quibbling over the details, everyone?Republicans and Democrats, the White House and Congress, all the presidential candidates?agrees that what we need is a "fiscal stimulus...