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...students at our favorite Medford safety school seem to have had some trouble accepting and adhering to this age-old social decree—prompting administrators to lay down some intimacy rules...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu | Title: And You Thought Harvard Was Puritan... | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

Though Kirwan has often had to lay off staffers because of budget constraints, she said that she always chooses to break the news herself, and confessed to tearing up at a meeting after having to personally lay off more than a dozen workers in Mass. Port Authority after Sept. 11 to push Logan airport back onto solid financial ground...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FAS Hires State Finance Official | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

What about people who seem to lack empathy altogether, like psychopaths? You talk about a "mammalian core." There's a book called Snakes in Suits, which is about psychopaths in business. Madoff would be a good example, probably, and Kenny Lay, the head of Enron. I find that such a striking title because it makes them into reptiles. Empathy is not a reptilian thing. Empathy is a mammalian thing. Psychopaths are capable of taking the perspective of somebody else, but only to take better advantage of you. They're able to play the empathy game, but without the feelings involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Humans Actually Selfish? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...produced a more carefully constructed album. The song breathes through the speakers at first, picked up by M. Ward’s croon, imbued with phonographic warmth and evocative lyrics: “The Sandman’s waiting to deliver me my dream / Guess I’ll lay my head against the elbow and the window / and watch the wheels go.” Then it builds, swept away by M. Ward’s chugging, steam-engine strum and Oberst’s tense splashes of lap steel that lead it into a blazing release. When...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Monsters of Folk | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...organizers lay on coach transport from the airport, but if you're planning some postfestival touring it might be a good idea to hire a car: Sputnik Car Hire, www. sputnik-car-hire.mw, offers reasonable rates. With music still ringing in your ears, you can drive out to somewhere like Cape Maclear, about 60 miles (100 km) away from Mangochi. There, Kayak Africa, www.kayakafrica.net, will ferry you across to either Mumbo Island or Domwe Island and their superb snorkeling or diving. Their self-catering, fully furnished safari-tent accommodations are a far cry from camping in the soggy fields of Glastonbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reach for the Stars in Malawi | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

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