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...treasurer, who meets with Vasella once a month to discuss the firm's investments. "He wants to know what sectors, what stocks--he goes to that level." Notes another top manager: "He's not a patient guy. He won't sit with you for 15 minutes as you carefully explain something. He wants to know the facts, and you better have them down cold...
...Crime and Punishment,” and “Lord of the Rings” (none of which made Harvard’s list). He is 20 percent liberal, three percent conservative, and 17 percent of him is in a relationship, a statistic that has been hard to explain to the other person involved. He goes to his computer, where he has been actively following Yale’s top news story of an “Eight-Limbed Toddler Believed to Be Vishnu Reincarnation...
...critical to cognitive functions like memory, attention focusing, higher-order motor control and the ability to suppress inappropriate responses and thoughts. One region, however, appeared to develop faster in the ADHD brain: the primary motor cortex. Combined with the delay in higher-order motor control, researchers theorize, it could explain why kids with ADHD are so fidgety and restless...
...sports the fast-paced narration typical of the genre, how are we expected to keep up with the race—let alone go through it twice—if the motive behind the running remains so unclear? Kasper is dedicated to saving KlaraMaria yet is unable to explain why. With every escalating sacrifice he makes on his tortuous quest, we grow ever more exasperated. “It’s important to exit on a high note,” Kasper says. If only Høeg had followed his advice rather than leaving us hoping...
More than 150 people packed into the Fong Auditorium yesterday evening to listen to psychology professor Stephen Pinker explain that the process of writing is in fact an exercise in psychology. Pinker gave his speech—“Writing as Psychology”—to celebrate the release of the 2006-2007 issue of “Exposé: Essays from the Expository Writing Program.” Pinker stressed the importance of conciseness while highlighting former Tufts President Jean Mayer’s 1982 statement, “Men with guns never starve...