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Life-hacking communities focus not just on efficiency but also on making life more satisfying. "Self-help books tend to be about lofty ideas, whereas life hacks are about getting things done and solving life's problems with modest solutions," says Merlin Mann, whose 43 Folders blog is one of the most popular life-hacking hubs. In contrast to tomes of lengthy analyses and rambling prose, life hacking boils down self-help to actionable nuggets on subjects that range from workplace negotiations to travel planning. Typical tips? To halve the length of meetings, have people stand, because they...
...Take the Heigl character, Alison. In her mid-20s, she is smart, pretty and nice. She has a good job, that's getting better, at the E! Channel. And where does this independent achiever live? Why, in the home of her married sister Debbie (Leslie Mann), with Debbie's husband Pete (Paul Rudd) and their two kids. Apatow imagines that, in Los Angeles 2007, there's some time-warp housing-shortage like the one in World War II-era Washington, D.C. - the premise for the 1943 comedy The More the Merrier...
...provide the opportunity for the first of a wave of veto showdowns during President Bush's last 18 months in office. "The congressional Republican leadership protected the President for his first six years and kept measures that he would veto from ever getting to the White House," says Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "That time is over...
Freshman goalie Lauren Mann came into the year not even knowing if she would start. “Coming in I had been told I had a good chance of starting, [but I] wasn’t sure our first two games,” Mann said. “So I didn’t think I would be starting in those and I was surprised when I saw my name in the starting lineup. But it was really cool.” Suffice to say, expectations were low—a solid presence on the backline would have...
...team notched key Ivy wins over rivals Cornell and Penn en route to a respectable league finish. In the latter match, the consensus high point of the season, Harvard took it to the Quakers in rainy Philadelphia, riding huge saves from Ivy League Rookie of the Year Lauren Mann to notch the victory. Although the rest of the season did not turn out as well, epitomized by a 5-0 defeat against Princeton two weeks later, the effort showed what the young core of freshmen is capable of in the future. “We always want to go undefeated...