Word: instinctiveness
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...half-grin. After all, you want to at least give the impression that you’re actually a nice person. If you enter a room with a stern face and gruff, stand-offish demeanor, even I would run away. Second, although it may go against your Harvard instinct, master the art of small talk. That doesn’t mean you should talk about the weather—unless you’re trying to engage an ESPP concentrator with your knowledge of tropical depressions—but it does mean you should seize the opportunity to make...
...now—“the age of progression”—or something like that. You don’t need to “have the balls” to ask him out. After all, chivalry seems to be over, and so should any instinct to wait around for a Prince Charming...
...Cullen has been sounding like a scrooge during the campaign, trying to protect the surplus at all costs, worrying about rising oil prices, a strong dollar and a scary current account deficit. But Brash is feeding the instinct for immediate gratification, although he is using the language of incentive, hard work and aspiration to sell it. National is promising large tax cuts across the board, with a plan that would see 85% of taxpayers charged a marginal rate of 19? in the dollar or less. Despite the output and jobs growth, real earnings have remained flat for the past five...
...remarkable individual in many dimensions,” Porter wrote in an e-mail. “In meetings his contributions are invariably on point. He has that wonderful quality when he disagrees with someone of not being disagreeable. His first instinct is to clarify and understand the relevant facts in addressing an issue and then to think through the consequences from a variety of vantage points. Everyone whom I knew liked him, in part because they liked his clarity and judgment, in part because of his wit and humor, in part because he is one of those people...
...Much of Bush's presidency has been built around keeping him away from unfriendly audiences. His campaign rallies were carefully screened and so are his policy events where he chews the fat about issues like Social Security. But that instinct surely can't be serving him well at a time when the country feels like a collective primal scream over seeing their countrymen left suffering...