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...Pays to Be Nice I was disgusted by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "No Jerks Allowed" [April 2]. Her attitude is from the aggressive 1980s. It is ridiculous to claim that there is a correlation between nastiness and giftedness. Some nasty people happen to be gifted, but it is not their nastiness that makes them so; on the contrary, it diminishes their effectiveness and costs their companies in both dollars and goodwill. I would not want to have a Steve Jobs or anyone on my team who "scars" his employees. Warren Buffett and Jimmy Carter, for example, do not find...
...people have been really nice to me...It’s still really surreal to me, to hear that anyone’s read it other than people that I’ve physically handed it to. Whenever I read any criticism of it, my first instinct is to think “where did I meet this person who somehow read my jokes...
...Amram ’10 says. “She tries to reach out, but I’m so busy I can’t meet her as much as she would like to.”However, she concludes that “it’s nice to know [the program] is there, even if I don’t really need it.”A program doling out 185 stipends at $1,000 each, in addition to the $60 it devotes to each freshman in the class to be spent at the discretion...
...Harris, the Wolfson professor of Jewish studies and chair of the Near Eastern languages and civilizations Department. “In an ideal world, we wouldn’t deal in zero sums,” Harris said, “In an ideal world, there would be a nice campaign and the humanities and social sciences would be taken care of also. We need to grow too.” FAS currently faces a budget shortfall, in part a result of a hiring surge that has significantly boosted its size. The Faculty began expanding in 1999, and since then...
...take me as an example. A few weeks ago, I ripped open my copy of TurboTax Deluxe Deduction Maximizer, popped the CD into my laptop, and happily followed the step-by-step on-screen prompts - I didn't have any losses from straddles to report, but it was nice to be asked and given a hyperlinked explanation (turns out, they're offsetting positions on property like stocks). Within a few hours, I was ready to e-file. The only annoying part - aside from the whole taxpaying thing, of course - was dealing with an unhelpful call center when my CD didn...