Word: niceness
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When Françoise Cochet saw the cord around her son's neck, she knew that he was dead. Fully clothed and still wearing his sneakers, 14-year-old Nicolas had strangled himself sometime after dinner in their apartment in Nice, France. His mother found him the next morning. "I shut the door so my other two children couldn't see, and I didn't touch the body," she says. "I thought that I couldn't live anymore. I thought I needed...
Problem is, NBC still has to operate in the old system. That system depends on affiliates, the infrastructure of broadcast TV since Uncle Miltie's day. (Right now, those affiliates have great, if temporary, leverage, because NBC needs them to play nice while it's being sold to cable operator Comcast.) And it depends on pleasing an audience used to ER and Law & Order at 10, not Jaywalking. (See TIME's photo-essay "Behind the Scenes with Jay Leno...
...definitely did a nice job stopping them, and we have been working toward [playing better defense],” Delaney-Smith said. “The single area I wish we would’ve done better in was containing their top scorer, who had 20 points...
...It’s nice to see your friends and have a little bit of Harvard at home,” she said...
...honest: do you ever buy anything impulsively? My one son loves these kinds of cookies that never have a coupon, but sometimes I just want to be nice. So, I see them on sale for $2.50 I think, Oh, what the heck, I'll get him the cookies. But for myself, there's never anything that says to me, Oh, Stephanie get that, who cares if it blows your budget? It just really goes against my grain. The fun is figuring out how to get a better deal...