Word: gracefulness
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...Kock. The black psychologist was so moved by the white man's pain that at one point she reached out and touched his shaking hand. The gesture startled them both. Around such moments, Gobodo-Madikizela has composed a beautiful moral document that is without a whisper of easy grace. --By Lance Morrow
Stock options' fall from grace offers a valuable lesson. Top execs have been getting them for decades, and in most cases their options have turned to gold. But the explosion in broad-based stock-option plans occurred after 1996, when the jig was all but up. Today around 9 million employees are in these plans, and at least half their options have strike prices (the point at which they make money) above where the stock now trades, says the National Center for Employee Ownership. In some cases, option grants replaced profit sharing, a bonus or increased 401(k) contributions...
...taller than my thigh, the boy with coal-dark eyes swings himself easily onto my white horse. Feet dangling high above the stirrups, he gallops along the shore of a frozen lake, turns, rears and dismounts with a grace that brings to mind his distant ancestors--the Mongol warriors who swept across Asia...
...gone from a medical and cultural institution to the punch line of a mildly dirty joke told by psychiatry residents. The members of the American Psychoanalytic Association today treat fewer than 5,000 patients in the U.S. How did the treatment Freud called the "talking cure" fall from grace? And now that it has fallen, can it get up again...
...acclaimed biographer, Roy Jenkins penned Gladstone (1995) and Churchill (2001). In 1987 Jenkins was made a life peer and elected Chancellor of Oxford University. He served as a mentor to Prime Minister Tony Blair, who described him last week as "one of the most remarkable people to ever grace British politics...