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...This one is the kicker. When it is abundantly clear you have nominated someone to be the head of a development bank who has little to no experience in, say, economics, you just point out that he’s a nice guy and trust that everything will be okay. Because—let’s face it—nobody likes an expert who actually knows something about what he’s doing but who might not be so nice. The headlines should have read: “Newsflash—the only qualification...
Loker Commons: Yeah, okay...
University President Lawrence H. Summers made a huge mistake. Okay, he’s made a few. But this time his comments have called attention to an insidious problem—the lack of diversity in “high-powered positions...
...daughter who's shutting her out, in retaliation for all manner of mistakes and indiscretions that Sue insists she never committed. At one point she spent, she says, $A5,000 on legal fees trying to win the right to visit the kids - if only to make sure they're okay - but ran out of money and couldn't pursue the claim. The children's father is also excluded. "The problem is that the custodial parent can brainwash the children," says Sue, "tell them things that the little children believe. So the boy doesn't even want to see his father...
...free time” with your closest friends. Keep your hand up if you don’t regularly have conversations that last more than an hour. Keep it up if you sometimes don’t talk to your roommate(s) for more than five minutes a day. Okay, you can put your hand down—people are staring...