Word: letting
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...unable to determine if a budding lawyer or a budding quarterback is going to be any good. How can we get better at making predictions? Certain kinds of predictions are impossible. If you want to find out if someone can do the job, you have to let them do the job. We should be experimenting with people too. I feel very strongly about the notion that if you want to find the best teachers, you let everybody into the profession, monitor them for two years, and then pick the 10% that are the best. That...
...start getting used to such situations. True, Rotana remains an anomaly protected by the position and progressive ideals of its owner - global investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud. And Saudi women still can't drive and legally can't even leave the house to shop, let alone get a job, without a male family member's permission. Yet under the guidance of a few members of the Saudi royal family - in particular the current King, Abdullah - the kingdom is slowly changing. Mixed-gender workplaces are becoming more common, especially in banks and good hospitals, where female doctors...
...financial advisers at Ameriprise. "Have the courage to say no," says Renee Porter-Medley, a financial planner at Key Private Bank in Fort Myers, Fla. State colleges and small weddings are fine; you are under no obligation to help with a down payment. If the kids need money, let them get loans. They have decades to repay them; you can always help out later...
...Let's grant that a lot of O'Keeffe's work invites those readings. When you're faced with the labial purple coils of a painting like Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, from 1918, what else can you think about? But what's so refreshing about the Whitney show - which runs through Jan. 17, then moves to Washington and Santa Fe, N.M. - is the way it spares us O'Keeffe the Earth Mother and points us back to the endlessly inventive formalist she remained, intermittently, to the end of her life...
With a relieved wave, the boatman let me off at a souk filled with Indians, Pakistanis, Filipinos and Yemenis - the immigrants who built Dubai and keep it ticking. But even there the mood was grim. The best-selling items were suitcases. At the rate of 5,000 a day, workers are heading home. Once, the world came to Dubai. Now all that's left of the World in Dubai is hundreds of empty islands...