Word: orientedness
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For centuries, men in the Middle East have gathered around hookahs to puff fruit-scented smoke, talk and pass the time. In the West, however, the water pipe became synonymous with drug culture in the 1960s, an association that lingers. But in the past couple of years, the hookah has...
This is meant to seem admirable. And it is, in a way, I suppose. Before Bush, leadership had fallen out of favor as a political strategy. Followship was all the rage: follow the polls, follow the focus groups, follow your consultants. "Leadership," wrote Dick Morris, the Iago of the Clinton...
Cognitive therapy is everything psychoanalysis isn't: simple, quick, practical, goal oriented. "There's this mystique about psychoanalysis," says Judith Beck, daughter of Aaron and herself a leading cognitive therapist. "Psychoanalysis is esoteric and creative and interesting, and the psychoanalyst holds himself up as the expert who interprets what the...
Desperate to expunge memories of the racially insensitive remarks Lott uttered at Thurmond's 100th-birthday bash on Dec. 5, Republicans selected Frist as their new majority leader on Dec. 23, hoping the surgeon could reattach "compassionate" to "conservatism." George W. Bush, who nudged Lott out and Frist in, has...
With many of China's 60 million registered investors sharing Chen's sense of outrage, the pressure on the country's new stock cop is palpable. Shang Fulin, a little-known technocrat, landed in the hot seat last week when he was named chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission...