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...Greenwald does say that both he and Banaji require their advisees to learn how to thrive while receiving more criticism than praise, as they share the belief that perseverance in the face of criticism is a trait shared by almost all successful scientists...

Author: By Weiqi Zhang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Chance Road to Harvard | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...Banque de France. The others were bankers, but he was a civil servant. He was the mayor of his little town for 35 years, and that captures his character - a rural Frenchman, he could have come out of a novel by Flaubert. Insular, xenophobic, he refused to learn English and believed, somewhat justifiably, that international finance was an Anglo-Saxon conspiracy designed to exclude France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Lessons from the Great Depression | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...didn't learn that lesson from the run-up in the stock market before the Depression, is there any reason to believe we'll remember it the next time around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Lessons from the Great Depression | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...speed up aging-related deficits in mental function and lead to a twofold increase in the risk of dementia. Some researchers have speculated that diabetes could even boost the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Roger Dixon, a psychologist at the University of Alberta in Canada, wanted to learn whether this was true and set out to study exactly how uncontrolled blood sugar affected the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Diabetes Linked to Cognitive Decline | 1/5/2009 | See Source »

...have met [Mashaal] question his leadership qualities. A senior Arab official with decades of experience came away particularly impressed with his 'willingness to learn,' which he noted was rare indeed for those at his level. The question, rather, is whether...[his] brand of militant pragmatism will continue to hold sway within the Hamas leadership." -Mouin Rabbani, in a preface to a Mashaal interview published in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamas Leader Khaled Mashaal | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

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