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...looking at my fat stomach" or "I can't go to that meeting without having a drink." Part mentor, part coach, part scold, the cognitive therapist questions such beliefs: Do you really screw up at work all the time, or like most people, do you excel sometimes and fail sometimes? Is everyone really looking at your stomach, or are you overgeneralizing about the way people see you? The idea is that the therapist will help the patient develop new, more realistic beliefs...
...While at times, the orchestra, conducted by Ben E. Green ’06, did not carry the dramatic weight of the acting and singing because of a vulnerable and sometimes thin sound, for the most part they did not fail to stir the audience and support the singers. It seemed as if the music could fall apart at any minute, but such frailty is Poulenc’s intention...
Burstein does not over-sympathize Jefferson. Instead, the Founding Father is presented as a man who believes that slavery should and will ultimately fail, but also as a man guided by reason who simply believes that there is neither enough public support for, nor any practical means of affecting, abolition at the present time...
...possibly historic run. Sullivan spent two years preparing and seasoning his team to be an Ivy contender. The constant concern was to strike the tenuous balance between exposure and humiliation, confidence and self-doubt, hunger and dread. To lose more than 20 games would have been disappointing, but to fail to learn anything from those defeats and to fail to improve would have been deadly. Last season, the Crimson rebounded for the third-largest turnaround in the modern era of its history, winning eight more contests than it had during the dismal 2003-2004 campaign. The energy was back...
...ministers who lose no-confidence votes have two options. “A government cannot operate effectively unless it can command a majority within the House of Commons,” according to a 2003 report of the U.K. House of Commons Information Office. “Should it fail to enjoy the confidence of the majority of the House, it has to hold a general election.” In fact, in some parliamentary systems, prime ministers have purposely staged no-confidence votes with the intention of losing, on the assumption that their party will perform well...