Word: nicely
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...completed roughly three semesters’ worth of work, officially withdrew in April, school officials said. Although Cosby had not declared his major, Denise Cosby said that her son had shared his post-college plans of “going into computers and looking forward to a nice, comfortable life.”Friends posting farewell messages on Cosby’s Facebook profile page paid tribute to the amateur basketball player as a strong presence in their social circle who always had a smile on his face.Lucas R. Toffoli ’09, a resident of Mather House, first...
Historian Barbara Taylor and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips don't believe that nice people finish last. In their new book, On Kindness, the authors employ history, social theory and psychoanalysis to chart how kindness has become a pejorative word over the years. Taylor spoke with TIME from her home in London about how success doesn't require cruelty, why people distrust generous gestures and how President Obama might be bringing the virtue back...
...book you use history and psychoanalysis to explain what kindness means today and how it has evolved. Why take that route? Taylor: I had got fed up with seeing stuff in the media about people suddenly discovering that being nice to others made them happier than being self-interested or greedy. How is it that people don't know this? In order to understand what's happened to kindness in contemporary society, it's important to understand how we got here. (See 20 ways to get and stay happy...
...time for relaxation, often cooking with her husband and cherishing whatever time she can find with her two teenage children, who currently attend boarding school.“I think one of her favorite things to do is to sit across from each other at the table with a nice meal, enjoying a glass of wine, and rehashing the events of the world’s day and our day,” says her husband, noting that they are particularly fond of Mediterranean cuisine. Mendillo says she continues to find the day-to-day work of portfolio management exciting...
...merely inherited. We talk about leaders being more energetic, more risk-taking, more optimistic, more persuasive, and more empathetic than other people, but these traits are affected partly by a leader’s genetic makeup and partly by the environments in which the traits were learned and developed.A nice experiment recently demonstrated the interaction between nature and nurture. A group of employers were asked to hire workers who had been ranked by their looks. If the employers saw only the resumes, beauty had no impact on hiring. Surprisingly, however, when telephone interviews were included in the process, beautiful people...