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Palin, soon-to-be-ex-Gov. Sarah • ability of to spout incomprehensible babble is undiminished by decision of to quit in a huff • Anderson Cooper isn't buying the inane excuses of the spokeswoman for • angry tweets of • David Letterman is still making fun of • eagerness of to get back to "slaying salmon" • efforts of to make people stop saying bad things about or they are going to get so sued by • excuse offered by for quitting is - as is so much of what passes the lips of - of questionable veracity • explanation...
...think he's any smarter; he will probably just disbelieve your contradictory theory, hew more closely to his own self-assessment and, in the end, feel even dumber. In one fascinating 1990s experiment demonstrating this effect - called cognitive dissonance in official terms - a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write hard-hearted essays opposing funding for the disabled. When these participants were later told they were compassionate, they felt even worse about what they had written. (See how to prevent illness...
ROME, Italy — “You know, America was founded by prudes,” Cooper Harris tells Scott Thomas in Eurotrip. “Prudes who left Europe because they hated all the kinky, steamy European sex that was going...
Four guys--the groom (Justin Bartha), his fiance's oddball brother (Zach Galifianakis), a henpecked friend (Ed Helms) and the token normal guy (Bradley Cooper)--go to Las Vegas for a booze-babes-and-baccarat bachelor party two nights before the wedding. It'll be, one promises, a "night we'll never forget." Next morning, three of them come groggily to in their suite. With them are a tiger in the bathroom and an infant in the closet. Missing, to their horror, are the groom--and any memory of what happened the night before...
...profits, not just bank profits. Anybody who makes things that in recent years were bought on credit, from houses to washing machines to cars, is likely to be affected. So are stock prices. "Higher borrowing produces both higher profits and higher asset prices," writes London-based money manager George Cooper in his 2008 book The Origin of Financial Crises, "while falling levels of borrowing cuts both profit and asset prices...