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KARL ROVE Suddenly, "Bush's Brain" doesn't seem like a compliment. The President told reporters after the election that Rove was winning their informal reading contest--"I obviously was working harder in the campaign than he was." The gibe was met with uncomfortable chuckles. (As Homer Simpson might say, "It's funny because it's true!") Campaign workers fault Rove for getting into the game late; his vaunted "72-hour project" turned out to need more time...
...Murphy said of a front four that held Columbia’s leading rusher to 0.9 yards per carry. Harvard “allowed” a startling minus-14 yards rushing to the Lions, not surprisingly a season best. “To give a compliment to those guys, you [might] say they run like linebackers,” Murphy added. “I say they run like safeties.”A 36-yard field goal from junior Matt Schindel with 12:52 to play in the fourth quarter not only ended the day?...
...book is a blast fired at Frankel and the tenets of first-wave feminist work advice. Whereas Frankel advises women to strengthen their business muscles by learning to play sports ("Business is a game and you can win it"), the Nice authors counsel women to help their enemies and compliment the competition: "We completely disagree with the conventional wisdom that 'nice guys finish last' and 'no good deed goes unpunished.' Our culture has helped to propagate the myth of social Darwinism--of the survival of the fittest--that the cutthroat 'me vs. you philosophy' wins the day." (Alas...
...girls finish last. Says Thaler: "We couldn't find one marketing book anywhere--and we combed through all of them--that had one sentence about the fact, 'Oh, and by the way, you should give a client a more comfortable seat, pick up their bags at the airport, compliment them on their ties.'" That's why the authors dismiss old think about office demeanor: "'Mean' to us is so last millennium...
...Best. I didn?t want her to be my mother (I had, and have, a fabulous one, thank you), but I recognized in Jane an emissary from a vanished age of better manners, cleaner diction, gentleness and gentility. She was a lady, when that word could be the ultimate compliment for a woman. This was so long ago, children...