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...jobs is to work with students to make sure what they want to happen actually happens. So I need to go to parties to see what’s being listened to, etc. But I’m not a spy. I usually go to the bigger functions or else just hang out with my friends...but at the same time, it’s hard to walk the line between being professional and being a peer. Meetings with deans versus hanging out with my twenty-or-so year-old peers...
...Consumption has lagged. That's because household income has stagnated, due to wage austerity, the rise of part-time and temporary workers, and near-zero interest rates. Total private-sector consumer income (wages, interest, self-employed income, etc.) was lower in 2004 (the latest year for which figures are available) than in 1997. The main source of any income growth has been government transfer payments, such as social security and health care, but these programs are being cut back to reduce the budget deficit. As households have dipped into their savings, so consumption has lagged. The household-savings rate...
...techniques to help mask the fact that you’re a Yard-dwelling, Expos-writing frosh. My methods have proven so effective that, during my freshman year, there were several occasions when students, professors, and, yes, even my parents, mistook me for a junior, senior, Larry Summers, etc...
...politics, the President's United Nations speech was genius. It almost didn't matter what he said as long as he talked tough. He lectured the bad guys - Syria, Iran, Hamas, etc. - and promised to stay the course in Iraq. He invoked 9/11. He said he hoped for a diplomatic solution to the nuclear crisis with Iran but offered no new means to achieve it. He was Presidential. Expect another bump up in the polls...
...TIME: You've written a book about being fearless when it comes to being yourself, but what about everyday fears: mice, spiders, thunder, etc.? What are you scared...