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...these techniques? Oh yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely. The biggest thing they showed me is how easily and unintentionally you can encourage behavior you don't want by giving it attention. I have friends who have basically trained their kids to whine by always responding to it. Or the classic is that kids don't get any attention when they're behaving nicely, and then the moment they're not, they get a ton of attention...
...years, the Waifish Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova entranced critics with her quick, intense energy and poetic style in classic and contemporary productions, including Giselle, Swan Lake and Spartacus. In 1995 she took on another role when her husband, Bolshoi artistic director Yuri Grigorovich, quit amid a dispute with management over plans for his replacement. Bessmertnova and her fellow dancers refused to perform for a night. The historic strike caused the company's first cancellation in more than two centuries. She was 66 and reportedly had kidney trouble...
Coming at you live from New York City, we have the Harvard Crimson taking on the Lions of Columbia in a classic New York - Boston match up. Stay tuned for second half highlights...
...scholars of the presidency, Kennedy's failure to scuttle or fix the ill-conceived invasion of Cuba is a classic case of the insufficiency of charisma alone. No quips, grins or flights of rhetoric would do. Kennedy needed on-the-job training, as he later admitted to a friend: "Presumably, I was going to learn these lessons sometime, and maybe better sooner than later." Unfortunately, when a President gets an education, we all pay the tuition...
...good softball team needs three things: pitching, hitting, and fielding. Check. Check. And check. When the Harvard women’s softball team opens its 2008 campaign this weekend at the San Diego Classic it will do so with most of the players that were on the Ivy championship team last spring. Have no doubt about it, those players are ready to defend their title.“We want to repeat this year,” captain Shelly Madick said. Madick, the 2007 Ivy Pitcher of the Year, will headline the pitching rotation for the Crimson...