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...might have been her near-devout fixation on all things ostensibly black, from her prized collection of African American Santa Clauses to marrying a Dominican man, my father, against the wishes of her family. Perhaps it was the feat of giving birth to two brown children, quite a deed, given this country’s paradoxical one-drop rule that holds a black woman can never give birth to a white child, as historian Noel Ignatiev points out. (But he also calls for the “abolition” of the white race—of its privilege...
...precious 14 months, Mariam was in the living room when she disappeared from view. After some franctic searching, my sister found her hiding in a corner of the dining room struggling to poop into her diaper. The polite yet constipated baby didn’t want to do the deed in front of the family. Adorable, non? The shitting business makes for good story-telling. When they were getting potty trained last year, Mariam would accompany Adam on his trips to the toilet. “It doesn’t work!” she said...
...awkward Harvard student, remember, the thrill here is more in the situation than in anyone’s skill. And don’t forget, casual sex is casual sex, so don’t expect more than you sign up for once you’ve done the deed...
...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, it may be that neither style will prove effective. A 2004 Stanford Graduate School of Business study found that "women...
...stock market, as in life, no good deed goes unpunished. Take the case of socially responsible investing (SRI). There are 79 stock funds that practice the style, which typically involves screening companies for stellar environmental and labor practices while shirking sin sectors like tobacco, booze and gambling. Sounds good, right? Yet SRI funds are often mediocre performers, partly because those sin stocks do rack up profits. Through September, the do-good funds averaged a 6.26% return, trailing the average stock fund by 0.6%, according to the research firm Morningstar. "Over time, SRI funds perform about the same...