Word: guts
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...Coast joined community leaders from the sites they served in a crowded Lowell House dining hall last night to share photos and recount stories from the frontline. Over the course of a week, 80 students volunteered at four sites in New Orleans and across Mississippi on projects ranging from gutting houses to working with school children. “What struck me the most was the hope, the hope of the whole community,” said Jason Lee ’06, who worked in Ocean Springs, Miss. “It was unbelievable, the damage we saw. Everything...
...that his students read “the most rigorous research out there in the field of psychology,” even if the weekly page count is not as staggering as it might be in an average history course. But 1504 does have a reputation for being a gut class, which accounts for some portion of its record-breaking enrollment stats...
...NEWMAN: Doing volunteer work is good. It attracts those with a big heart. But you have to trust your gut. They don?t play games with you. I?m a fan of Internet dating, but you have to be more astute to find a mensch that way. It?s tricky to find a mensch online...
...summer house in Tuscany, by all means take it and don't ask a lot of questions. But it would be nice if the folks that Wall Street serves made out too-not like bandits, but like the hard-working and trusting investors that most of them are. The gut-wrenching comparison that best illustrates that something may be amiss: in 2005, the average diversified stock fund returned 6.7%; bond investors gained under 1%; the average stock rose just 3%, according to market tracker Lipper. Those seriously sub-par returns don't square with a record Wall Street payday...
...specific regimens to follow, the most important component of a good decision is simply practical reasoning. And all that means is that you need to use a little bit of both calculation and intuition. Follow a philosophy of “informed intuition”: Pay attention to your gut feeling but also make sure that you’ve done your research. Learn to trust yourself a little...