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...tops, but the gum never materialized. When I told this story to a friend recently, she said, "You're a smart girl, Jane. How did you get duped into believing this and sending in the money?" Because I was 13 (hence immortal) and health wasn't a factor if it meant getting thin. I knew tapeworms weren't fatal. If it had been a bubonic virus I was sending away for, I'd have thought twice--maybe. But anything that would allow me to get thin without having to do something active seemed attractive. Mind you, I wasn...
...course, most people would probably play up the pain factor a bit more—but then again, most people probably wouldn’t continue playing Division I hockey with a torn...
Special teams, crucial to Harvard’s success all season long, were not a major factor in the first period, as the referees delivered only three power plays—two of those to the Crimson—and largely let these titans settle matters...
...that likeability isn't necessarily a required characteristic for the corner-office job. But could CEO Michael Eisner, for example, have been more effective as a manager at Disney if he had been friendlier? Tim Sanders, a Yahoo! executive and author of the new self-help manual The Likeability Factor (Crown; 220 pages), thinks so. "Good things happen to you in business when you're emotionally attractive," insists Sanders...
Raising your L-factor, as Sanders calls it, is like attaining physical fitness. There are four qualities to practice. The most important is friendliness. This may seem obvious, but "if you are not friendly," he says, "you will have to work exponentially harder to be likeable." The second is relevance: "If you possess a skill that will help someone complete a task, you are relevant to that person. If you appeal to someone's need to laugh, your relevance is your sense of humor." Third comes empathy: Slow down and walk a mile in your colleagues' wing tips. Finally, keep...