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From time to time, every team must admit the cliché, but inevitable mantra: “There’s always next season...
...you’re as beloved and celebrated a personality as Kathy Delaney-Smith, you shouldn’t have to do much pretending. But Harvard women’s basketball’s head coach for 27 years running has a mantra that at once belies and explains her confidence: “Act As If.”A short documentary of that title, written and directed by Melissa Johnson ’00, played last night at the AMC/Loews Boston Common Theater as part of the Boston International Film Festival. The festival began last Friday and runs...
Gallagher does an admirable job of getting attention's attention from every angle - relationships, work, play - using both science and philosophy. Yet underneath it all is that hippie dippy mantra, "Be here now." And while Gallagher's theme may ultimately be nothing more than a familiar '70s message repacked in prestigious new millennial clothes, it bears repeating. Now stop reading this and go pay attention to something important...
...reflexive analogies, this is not the 1930s, when Babe Ruth took a $10,000 salary cut (roughly what A-Rod earns per swing) and New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker told theaters to show only cheery films. And yet we're channeling our grandparents, who were taught, like a mantra, to use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without. Now, if you can make it, you don't have to buy it: just replace the lawn with a vegetable garden, eat your fill and then store whatever is left. Sales of canning and freezing supplies rose...
There's a mantra in AIDS treatment that every physician in the field knows by heart: When it comes to HIV, hit early and hit hard...