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There's a fine line, though, between putting your best self forward and creating a new self that could be found out in the end. "Trying to be more authentic based on a professionally crafted personality makeover is a contradiction in terms," says Roy Baumeister, a social psychologist at Florida State. That contradiction is a particular risk for online daters who pay consultants to transform their lives into compelling advertisements. Fran Hartman, a bubbly New Hampshire widow, had posted a Yahoo! Personals ad touting her fondness for seafood and back rubs, and herself as "a young looking 66 year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Brand-You World | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

What are the notions of niceness? Everything your mother told you: smile more, pay attention, cooperate, fine-tune your listening skills, collaborate and share credit. Being nice doesn't conflict with being a leader or making difficult choices. It's a question of style: "In the end, being a cheerleader is far more effective than being a drill sergeant," the book advises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nice Girls Get Even | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...self-puncturing can there be before the audience tires of the repetition, or gets exasperated and shouts, "You've been punk'd"? It also has a much larger cast, all of them seemingly graduates of the Off-Hollywood School of Bad Acting. Only Bell, hoarse and recriminating in fine Old Testament God fashion, can summon the depraved grandeur his character requires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saw Came and Conquered | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...regard my cartoons as editorials—it’s not to make you laugh but to make you think,” says Kallaugher, “It’s a fine line, being provocative but not inflammatory...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alum Sketches Future of Political Toons | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

Most of the album is fine, if a little boring, taken song by song. The problem with the album as a whole is that every song aspires to be an anthem. Nearly every track ends with twice the volume, three times the vocals, and five times the instruments it started out with. Piling on the drama time after time, however, just becomes fatiguing and a little silly, especially when it’s achieved each time simply by adding more and more of everything...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD Review: My Chemical Romance | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

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