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...like tragic auditioners for a hip-hop video. We, the participants in the High Heel Fitness Class & High Heel Walking Workshop, need more hips. We need to move our knees more. We need to tighten our core. We need to hold up our chests. We need, in short, to learn to walk again. This time in heels...
...nearly 3 million years of human history, saving and investment was a dumb idea. We hunted, we gathered, we consumed, and we moved on to greener pastures. Only when migrating tribes learned to settle down and farm did they need to save and plan, storing seeds and surpluses to tide them over from season to season. We've had 10,000 years to absorb the truth that cultures that don't value THRIFT ultimately flame out and die. Apparently that isn't long enough to learn the lesson...
Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from The Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years By Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui Portfolio; 310 pages...
...House laundry room and you may find that the complementary condom boxes are not completely full. Enter any House dining hall, and you will find that at least one or two students has got the sex glow. This is positively disgusting. Sex aside, Harvard students cannot seem to learn to hit the books. With a vaguely worthwhile party occurring on campus nearly once every three to four weeks, Harvard students lack the restraint to stay in their dorms. The worst offenders among us sometimes venture out two to three nights a week, and some of these students drink...
...about Obama's coolness and intellectuality. And at times in this campaign - during Hillary Clinton's populist transformation, after Sarah Palin's convention speech - Obama's demeanor has seemed problematic. He was too remote, too cerebral and nuanced in his answers, it was said; he had to get warmer, learn to love junk food, practice his bowling. But Obama stubbornly remained himself through the tough times; his preternatural calm has proved reassuring in both the economic crisis and the first debate. "His performance has been polished and steady," a prominent Republican told me. "John's has not been...