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Like Job's, Cyrus' life story has been made into a book, Miles to Go. Hers is a memoir and a little longer (she's 16, after all), but both are tales of remarkable turns of fortune. At 12, Cyrus scored the lead role in the Disney TV series Hannah Montana, about a teenager, also named Miley, who is secretly a ginormous teen pop star. Four years later, Cyrus is very publicly a ginormous teen star, with three best-selling albums (on Disney's record label), the memoir (on Disney's book label), a sold-out concert tour, a record...
...that celebrities are indeed narcissistic, in his new book The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America. While the average American scores a 15.3 on the Narcissism Personality Inventory, a 40-question test long used by psychologists, celebrities averaged 17.84. Longtime stars and newbies scored similarly, which might lead you to conclude that fame doesn't turn people into narcissists - it just attracts them. The more a person's fame was the unintended by-product of a skill, like playing an instrument, the lower the score. Reality-show participants landed numbers you'd expect only from 2-year-olds...
...case study—being written by a task force formed in November by HBS Dean Jay O. Light to research the implications of the financial crisis for HBS—will analyze the School’s performance in preparing students during the lead up to the financial crisis...
...economic growth and social opening, silence still enshrouds many aspects of the nations' sex life, and not, health experts say, without consequences. While most industrialized nations have seen HIV/AIDS death rates steadily decline in the past 10 years, China announced in February that the HIV virus took the lead as the deadliest infectious disease in the nation in 2008, killing nearly 7,000 people in the first nine months of the year. "It's very difficult to talk about sex in schools. It's very difficult to talk about sex in relationships. It's very difficult to talk about...
That's one reason failure in Afghanistan is not an option. An Afghan businessman adds another. He lived through the resistance to the Soviets in the 1980s, only to see the U.S. abandon Afghanistan when they left. Another betrayal, he thinks, could produce the same blowback that helped lead to 9/11. "If Afghanistan is sold out again," he says, "you would be basically giving 60% of the nation into the hands of the people who want to destroy the West. And I can tell you that these young Afghans are ingenious, they are creative and they know...