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...VOID is that empty time between 5am and 8am every night where there’s no one on gchat, no sound but your roommate’s blissful snoring, and nothing to think about besides the work you’re not getting done. But you’re not alone, FlyBy is here to guide you through...
...students entering the private sector] begins to rise above one-third of our graduates, it makes me a little uneasy,” he says. “But it does fluctuate from time to time.”McCarthy adds that he thinks public service can also be done from a private sector platform. But some students disagree.“We had a skepticism that some huge portion of people going into private sector would be working on public problems,” Ginsburg says. “And even if they were working on it, it wasn?...
...retrospective, to assess our new leaders after they've had enough time to take action but before they've solidified their legacy. And although it seems like an arbitrary measure - if something happens on the 101st day, is it somehow less important? - Presidents can get a surprising amount done in their first three-and-some-odd months. (See behind-the-scenes pictures of Obama...
Roosevelt was enormously popular (hence the fourth term), and later administrations have tried to associate themselves with his early success. "Jerk out every damn little bill you can," President Lyndon Johnson reportedly commanded his strategist Larry O'Brien in 1965. "Put out that propaganda ... that [we've] done more than they did in Roosevelt's hundred days." Propaganda or not, Johnson actually had a very effective 100-day run: after being sworn in as Kennedy's sudden and unexpected successor, he advanced the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, established the Warren Commission to investigate J.F.K.'s assassination...
...Perhaps the most influential work in this field was done by Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky in the 1970s and '80s. The partners developed a number of experiments that proved even smart people will arrive at wrong answers to fairly simple questions, depending on how information is presented to them. In one example, they told test subjects about a woman named Linda, who "is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright." They added that Linda "majored in philosophy," "was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination" and "participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations...