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...seem as though someone had thrown a switch in Obama. Suddenly for Obama, as Lincoln wrote of his own presidential aspirations in 1860, "the taste is in my mouth." Voters began to see that he really wanted the job he was campaigning for. "There's a certain joy to it that I see in him now," says his strategist David Axelrod. "I just sensed from that point on that sort of incredible focus, energy, acuity, joy. He's into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama: The Contender | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...just a matter of justice, but it's also a matter of efficiency," he says. It turns out the negative response to earning less is usually stronger than the positive response to earning more or as Falk says, "The pain of having less is much stronger than the joy of having more." Workers who discover they're earning more for the same work may be happy, but those who earn less can quickly feel slighted, killing motivation and often the quality of their output. It doesn't take a brain specialist to understand how that affects a business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Success Depends on Others Failing | 11/26/2007 | See Source »

...that’s the nature of the beast, and the joy of the obsession—forever mumbling, “enhance, enhance” to ourselves, alone in our rooms...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blade Runner: The Final Cut | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...script simply isn’t up to snuff. Like his occasional writing and production partner Wes Anderson, Baumbach has the tendency to leave the story up to atmosphere rather than the plot or characters. While Anderson compensates for this by overwhelming the viewer with moving scenes of joy, sadness, and hope, Baumbach’s vision concentrates too much on characters to leave them so exposed. The script begins to go south shortly after Kidman’s husband, John Turturro, makes an unexpected visit. Suddenly, Baumbach seems to pour every hateful word he can extract from Kidman?...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Margot at the Wedding | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...think there’s a lot of heart, and a lot of grit...and a lot of pain and exhilaration and joy that comes out of being on the underground,” says Ring. “But the main goal is to make music that a lot of people want to hear...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The All-Spin Zone | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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