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...certain prewar British integrity about it. In current children's films, you have to be ironic to reach the parents in the audience. It's a profitable formula, but this film won't appeal to one audience over the heads of another. It looks the whole audience in the eye...
SHAKING HANDS "The business arena is gender neutral, or it should be. So it doesn't matter who extends a hand first, man or woman. Give a firm handshake; give eye contact. The most important thing is always stand when someone shakes your hand. When you stand, it shows respect. It's about making the other person feel important...
...poem that springs to mind when one think of Paul, and anyone who knew him should read it. Another poem by Pablo Neruda also recalls him to me. The poem contrasts a bright bunch of yellow flowers with the endless sea, and describes how one’s eye is drawn away from the sea’s deepness and vastness to the explosive, earth-bound beauty of the flowers. After all, “We are dust and to dust return/ in the end we’re / neither air, nor fire, nor water,/ just dirt?...
When I shakily re-entered the stream of humanity, or perhaps inhumanity, I noticed things I hadn’t before. The New York walk, for instance, filled with purpose, but purposeless. The faces that looked unwaveringly ahead yet saw nothing. The way that people avoided eye contact at all costs on the subway. The fact that middle seats are almost never taken on even the most crowded rush hour train—people would rather stand. Why is it that when taking public transportation—one of the last places that all segments of society come into close...
Questions about American foreign policy took the bulk of the question-and-answer session that followed Summers’ remarks, although the students also addressed other topics—including Harvard’s place in the public eye and Summers’ controversial January remarks that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” may be responsible for a dearth of women scientists. Those comments sparked strong criticism from many professors and culminated in a March vote of no confidence in Summers’ leadership...