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Smart, challenging, engaged, even-tempered and fair leaders raise the bar for employees a lot higher than do mean bosses. What is harder than treating people kindly? Being an evenhanded manager is definitely not a job for wimps; the faint of heart need not apply...
...also takes this broader view, and boasts of having imparted his love for the PBJ-and-M to his roommates. I personally advocate the matza cereal, though its preparation requires an athletic crumbling motion that just not everyone can master at first. It’s not for the faint of wrist. Another very wise man and avid tennis athlete—though he strongly denies rumors that he can hold his own against former Harvard tennis great James Blake—our very own dean Benedict H. Gross ’71, keeps a box on hand in University...
...landing on the drummer in the orchestra pit. (Rim shot.) Life with Hutton was just as perilous in Hollywood. She cracked three ribs getting tossed about by acrobats in the movie Incendiary Blonde. Her exuberance often injured her co-stars; she knocked out one actor, made another faint away, separated Hope's caps from his teeth. "When they work with me," she told TIME, "they gotta get insurance policies...
...lunch, meat for dinner, and several other breaks for sweet black tea. The fact that we were in an area where people routinely starved did nothing to stem his appetites. If, as happened on occasion, I forced Bishaq to miss a meal, he would complain constantly. "I feel faint, I feel weak," he'd say, holding up a frail hand. "It's not right. It's not good...
...player from taking that potentially heart-breaking heave by fouling him before he has a chance to shoot the ball. In the college game, that usually sends the opponent to the line, forcing him to make the first free throw, and then miss the second one intentionally with the faint hope of grabbing an offensive rebound and tying the game before the buzzer sounds. There's no denying that the chances of that scenario succeeding are a lot slimmer than nailing a last-second three pointer...