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Diplomacy is an art form, a subtle construct of gestures and words, body language and rhetoric carefully arranged for a single purpose: to persuade another country to behave the way you want. Tone is the hardest thing to get right. How do you convey your views so they're firm and forceful without putting the other side's back...
Duluth Coach Shannon Miller will convey similar lines of thought to her team. She is well aware of the dangers of giving Harvard's offense anything to work with, having coached Botterill and Shewchuk in the Canadian national program before she was axed after Canada's disappointing second-place finish in the 1998 Olympics...
...That, of course, was a potentially catastrophic gaffe by a president whose problems in choosing the words that best convey his ideas can prove to be a killer liability in international diplomacy, where a leader's every word is parsed for nuance by friend and foe. For the record, the U.S. has only one agreement with North Korea - the 1994 accord to stop the production of weapons-grade nuclear fuel in exchange for assistance by Japan, South Korea and the U.S. in developing alternative energy sources (including a series of lower-grade nuclear reactors). And as U.S. officials hurried...
...real emotional moment," Yale Coach Tim Taylor '63 said. "Billy has helped my career out so much and what he has meant to Harvard and this sport is just tremendous. I could not begin to convey that to my team...
Unfortunately, Hogg uses 300 pages of cute anecdotes, acronyms (S.L.O.W. means "Stop, Listen, Observe, What's Up?") and silly charts to convey her advice. One chart, on "translating body language," offers the revelation that if your baby looks "like a person falling asleep on a subway," then she's "tired." In many other ways, Hogg's advice sounds obvious. Not only have people like my Aunt Lena been dispensing this kind of wisdom for generations, but also Dr. Spock first published it in Baby and Child Care in 1945. For me, his famous first sentences, "Trust yourself. You know more...