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...have to give them a choice to say yes to," agrees Robert C. Bordone, deputy director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project and Beal lecturer at HLS. "Its easier to find the stick than the carrot...
...those that are healthier for your children--and for you. Low-fat milk, a rich source of calcium, is better than sodas or juice drinks for most children. (Kids who have trouble digesting lactose often do well with yogurt or lactose-reduced milk.) Try freezing grapes or serving carrot sticks with salsa. But make sure you don't create a backlash against fruits and vegetables by emphasizing how good for you they are. That only makes potato chips and brownies seem all the more appealing...
...sorry to say, very limited,” according to Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan Pedersen ’82—probably about as much as you can expect from a survey that serves as bribery for graduation tickets. Instead of this carrot-and-stick approach, the same apparatus as exists for the course guide should be brought to the task...
...like Milosevic--or the officers around him who had been indicted by the war-crimes tribunal in the Hague--walk away from their crimes would tarnish the hard-won idea of international accountability. Last fall, even as the White House celebrated Milosevic's defeat, Washington sent a carrot-and-stick signal to Belgrade: Milosevic must be arrested by March 31 or millions in U.S. aid would be frozen, along with a big piece of U.S. goodwill. But in the past weeks the White House gave the Serbs some wiggle room. It wasn't necessary that Milosevic be sent...
...With long-term Israeli-Palestinian political negotiations in the deep freeze, the region appears to be settling back into the relative stability of a low-intensity conflict. Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon hopes to put a lid on Palestinian resistance by selectively striking at activists, while holding out the carrot of easing Israel's collective punishment of blockades and curfews. But he is caught between mounting pressure from his right-wing base to strike back and concern that a heavy-handed response may leave Israel even more isolated internationally. The latest retaliation may well have been targeted at Palestinian militants...