Word: neutralizers
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...things start going south, try bringing up something amusing but neutral, ideally a subject that’s already been broached. Recent movies or books are a safe bet, especially if you’ve got an inkling of your prof’s taste in such things. If silence is threatening and you’re ruing the day you ever thought to ask this lump to have dinner with you, you can always just start having fun with it. Throwing propriety to the wind will be entertaining for you, at least, and perhaps your professor will...
Meanwhile, U.S. officials speak of Iraq's army and police as if they were neutral guarantors of public safety. Iraqis see them for what they are: Shi'ites or Sunnis who are active combatants in Iraq's civil war. Shi'ite police units have kidnapped, tortured and executed thousands of Sunnis since the Samarra bombing. Sunni policemen are often insurgents or sympathizers. The army, while marginally better than the police, is divided along sectarian lines and is largely ineffective. Whole battalions do not show up for combat duties they don't like. It is not possible to build a national...
...advantage from the crowd and not having to travel and being familiar with the confines, the home team usually wins. The rule of thumb in betting football is that home field is worth three points; a game with a three-point home favorite would be a coin flip on neutral turf...
...been around long enough to see the politicizing of many things: haircuts, handshakes, the choice of cars and food and, of course, smoking. What used to be neutral activities either were ostracized or, at least, required a moment's delicate consideration before one said or did something...
...Corner Office (Warner Business), a hit career guide of a few years back. Equating feeding with nourishing and deriding it as "a stereotypically female attribute," author Lois Frankel, a career coach, advised women to leave their girlishness in the parking lot and arrive for work as gender-neutral adults. She cites such tough-minded women, not girls, as Meg Whitman and Anne Mulcahy, the CEOs, respectively, of eBay and Xerox. Girls, she wrote witheringly, are "nice to be around and they're nice to have around--sort of like pets." In case anyone missed the message: "Quit bein' a girl...