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...your foot down. No is so often hard to say, Ury writes, because it highlights the "tension between exercising your power and tending to your relationship"--in other words, between getting what you want in the short term and keeping everyone happy for interactions down the road. People often err in one direction or the other, prioritizing either the relationship by saying yes when they long to say no or their own power by brusquely saying no and alienating the person they're dealing with. Then there is the ever popular route of avoidance--saying nothing at all and gaining...
...policy order,” said Councillor Marjorie Decker. Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 offered a longer criticism of Kelley’s behavior. “It is my view that in one’s first term in the council, you can err on the side of needing more information because you want to fully understand a thing,” Reeves said. “[But] at some point, you want to put in the human factor and say, do you want to torture the manager enough...
...times the Brits err on the other side: understatement can shade toward indifference. Mirren was so reasonably sure of taking both awards that, in her first acceptance speech, she didn't bother with the obligatory thank-you to her husband, director Taylor Hackford. She did that the second time. Perhaps Mirren is saving her "A" material for the Oscars. Expect a regal proclamation when she wins...
...Although Benton says she would like to have time to run cross-country or join the cheerleading squad at her high school along with many of her friends, "you just have to keep your eye on the ball" - err, rope. And she has. Benton placed third for individual female competitors in last year's world competition. Not bad for a girl who took up jumping rope on a lark after watching a demonstration at a local shopping mall when she was just a little girl...
...really non-negotiable. It’s whatever her heart and mind tell her, and that’s the way racial ascription should be: bottom up, not top down. I love her in all her non-white glory. It’s no longer the white—err, pink—elephant in the room...