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...read, I’m sure. THEN WE CAME TO THE END by Joshua Ferris I wanted to run as soon as I saw this book. Yellow post-it notes clutter the cover. Post-its mean reminders of things that need to be done. And for an obsessive-compulsive-checklist-maker like me, seeing this book cover was enough to make me hyperventilate. Death by post-its, anyone? SHOPAHOLIC & BABY by Sophie Kinsella I literally cringed when I saw this book. Haven’t we had enough “Shopaholic” books? The first one was good...
DIED. Richard Lehman, 83, CIA veteran who in 1961 initiated a now standard daily memo for the President summarizing global intelligence news; in Concord, N.H. Originally known as PICL (pronounced pickle), the President's intelligence checklist--which guided John F. Kennedy through such events as the Cuban missile crisis--is now called the President's Daily Brief...
...Religion is a mutable concept in the Gaber household. Having one Muslim and one Christian parent—each from very religious but significantly different backgrounds—meant that the issue was polarizing and thus, rarely forced. Religion was a guidebook for living morally but never a checklist for acting “correctly.” While a headscarf was therefore never on my parents’ agenda or even on my radar when I was growing up, I realized this summer that the hijab is omnipresent in many peoples’ lives, whether they like...
...from the country's business, intellectual or social ?lites, nor from those close to the palace. Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanond has repeatedly made thinly veiled criticisms of Thaksin; Anand recently declared that Thailand could become "a failed state"; and social reformer Prawase Wasi produced a damning 10-point checklist of Thaksin's failings. Thaksin responded by complaining that his senior critics were "senile." Meanwhile, the dragged-out political crisis is hurting the economy: GDP growth in the second quarter of this year was 4.9%, down from 6.1% in the first quarter...
...Harvard to appoint a non-Harvard alum? What would it mean for Harvard to appoint a non-academic? All of these are questions that the board will consider,” McLaughlin says.In the end, search committee members will make their selection on the basis of individuals, not a checklist of characteristics.“You’re trying to decide among three people or among four people, each one of whom has got most of what you want, but not everything,” Slichter says.BOK’S TICKING CLOCKThe search committee is on a deadline.While...