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...know I’ll be back in Mumbai sometime soon, and I’ll have my drink at Leopold’s. I won’t be able to do it with any sense of victory. I’ll fidget and spend too much time watching the people passing by. But I will sit at that corner table for a few minutes. Deep breath, I’ll tell myself. This is how things...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: A New Coming of Age | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...clients' feet moved. Customers began to say, "they can't talk right now, they have their mind on something else, or they just work on their BlackBerry," Peralta says. "It can be a pain for me, because when people are stressed or moody they tend to fidget and I have to grab their ankle to keep their foot still." In the days leading up to the Sept. 15 nosedive, and since, the clients still talking to him have all been asking the same question. "They want to know what everyone else is saying. 'What are you hearing?' is what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street Meltdown: Global Fallout | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...certainly preferable to hating your job, when taken to its logical conclusion, it destroys summer. And this seems somehow wrong.Indeed, the overbooked generation stands the risk of becoming the overwhelmed generation if this trend continues. We have grown up without a conception of spare time. Left to ourselves, we fidget and grow paranoid. It always seems that there is something we should be doing.Hence the birth of the productive-unproductive summer, the overbooked generation’s answer to relaxation. A typical productive-unproductive summer allows us to do something we enjoy because of its underlying academic or charitable purpose...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Vacation? | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

You’re starting to fidget, so I’ll stop embarrassing you and let you go. Be polite, but always speak your mind. Never forget where you came from. Goodbye, Thesis...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly | Title: Goodbye, Stack of Paper | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...room falls silent save for the soft drone of an air conditioner. It's embarrassing for these upstanding burghers of Singapore-so methodical and conscientious in their professional lives-to dwell upon the possibility that they might be falling short at home, but Wong lets them fidget and cough for a few more moments before resuming. "Watching your children over the Internet is one thing," he says, "but the goal of parenting is to get them to do the right thing when you're not looking." And there are plenty of hours in the day when Asian fathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dads' Dilemma | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

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