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...decision makers have chronicled the irrationality of Homo sapiens. Some of our foibles are quite specific, like overvaluing things we have, overeating food in larger containers and overestimating the probability of improbable events - the quirk that made the Meet Barack Obama fundraising lottery such a smart idea. But in general, we're ignorant, shortsighted and biased toward the status quo. We're not as smart as Larry Summers. We procrastinate. Our impulsive ids overwhelm our logical superegos. We plan to lose weight, but ooh - a cupcake! We're especially irrational about money; we'll pay more for the same thing...
...rest of us if he's right? Top-of-the-class M.B.A.s would have to find other careers, and pension funds and endowments would lose some money. But there's a silver lining: Among the greatest bargains in investing right now, Siguler said, are brand-name giants such as General Electric and Boeing. Private-equity firms can't afford to buy them. You and I can, a share at a time...
Both architects of the new General Education curriculum said that they would have preferred a program with fewer than eight categories to give students more leeway for electives...
English Professor Louis Menand and Philosophy Professor Alison Simmons—the two co-chairs of the Task Force on General Education, which wrote the legislation for the new curriculum to be launched this fall—said that they are concerned that the eight-category requirement may constrain students’ schedules, especially those who will also be pursuing secondary fields...
...entertainment, said OAASIS Director of Communications Jessica J. Wen ’10, they can also have detrimental effects on the way people view women. “Especially with ‘Gossip Girl,’ there’s a lot of petty fighting, and general cattiness,” said Wen in an interview before the event. “It tends to portray girls negatively through situations like fighting over boys, getting back at each other...stupid stuff like that.” Others disagreed: “especially in the last 10 years, women...