Word: intellects
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...give a piece of advice to Harvard students about their sex and love lives, what would it be? JF: Obviously, I would encourage them to abstain until marriage. LC: It would probably be to be as confident about their sexuality as they are about their intellect and other things that make them great. Start acknowledging it, and not being ashamed that we have sexual desires, and not treating sex as something we should be ashamed of. Janie can be a sexual person, she can masturbate, she can be comfortable with her body...
...audience lingers for another 45min., asking questions about health, marriage, reducing stress. Swamiji, like any good management guru, pushes his newest book, The Fall of the Human Intellect, one of 10 he has written over the decades ("Every word, between 4 and 6 in the morning," he later explains. "After 6, it's not worth reading.") He invites the audience to come to a YPO retreat in January at his Vedanta Academy, 67 miles (108km) southeast of Mumbai...
...ripe for an attitude adjustment. After the 21 Club lecture, a honcho asks Swamiji a question that brought titters of recognition from fellow ypoers: "What if you want to shoot for the stars? How can you manage your expectations?" Swamiji nods. He explains once again that a calm intellect is a more productive intellect. But then he concedes that in coming before this group of strivers, he had to manage his own expectations...
...Anniversary of Hope On every anniversary of Sept. 11, I think of how much trust was lost among so many Americans and Muslims [Sept. 17]. Yet not long after that tragic day, one seemingly delicate American woman with an iron will and amazing intellect trusted my family and me with her most precious treasures for a week: she left her two teenage daughters with us in Montreal when she went to a conference in the U.S. In that moment of difficulty, she trusted a bearded Muslim colleague at her university and his veiled wife. God knows I would have given...
...politics, with a particular interest in grassroots governance and social protest, according to the institute’s Web site. “The Institute’s future could not be in better hands, Liz [Perry] is a distinguished scholar, outstanding teacher, and a leader of great intellect, vision and principle, with broad interests in both theoretical and practical concerns in East Asia studies,” Weiming said in a statement. “I am confident that she will not only maintain the Institute’s high intellectual standards but also advance its mission...