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According to the gold-standard work in this area, German scholar Peter Schönbach's seminal 1980 paper on what academics call "the taxonomy of accounts," there are four main ways people respond to their "failure events": the concession ("I did it, it was my fault, I'm sorry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do Men Keep Apologizing? | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

With Columbia’s outside game stone cold—the Lions shot just 29.0% the entire game—it went inside to junior forward Judie Lomax looking for answers. Lomax, who led the NCAA in rebounding at 14.3 per game last year, scored a game-high 20...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Earns First Conference Win at Home | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

BlackRock, though, stressed that it is unlikely that any of those banks would have been willing to make a "deep concession" on price. Nor is it clear that all of the deals, including those with SocGen or UBS, could have been completed. French regulators pressured SocGen and Calyon not to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could the U.S. Have Saved Billions on AIG Rescue? | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

While it may seem a trivial issue to allow rivals like Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari to put their icons on Microsoft screens, the concession could signal the end of the company's domination of the browser market. Until now, Microsoft has used its near monopoly in operating systems to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In E.U. Deal, Microsoft Allows Rival Browsers | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

Removing his bear head, he then proceeded to read to us the “concession remarks” sent by Kirkland House Masters Tom and Verena Conley. In the second of two e-mails, the Conleys identified, in a photograph, “the two sluggers in their entryway...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pfoho Celebrates a Victory | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

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