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...interdisciplinary outlook will be an asset at the Belfer Center, Allison said, which seeks to train future leaders on policy issues related to the intersection of science, technology, the environment, and international affairs and security, according to the Center’s Web site...
...store had provided clothing for the Harvard fashion show Eleganza and several fashion shows sponsored by Harvard Business School. Alo will liquidate its merchandise at the Santa Marias’ new store location. Despite the difficult environment for high-end retail stores, Marie Santa Maria was sanguine on the outlook of their next business venture. “It’s just a process that we’ve been through,” she said. “We’ve seen it all.” —Staff writer Shan Wang can be reached...
...1990s, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former U.S. President Bill Clinton, both of whom had sought to govern by marrying some of the social concerns of the traditional social-democratic left with the market-oriented economic growth strategies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Today, a similar outlook is shared by the moderate leftist parties that govern in Latin America's biggest economies, such as Brazil, Argentina and Chile. And the current global economic crisis would appear to be an auspicious moment for political leaders whose central message has always been that the free market alone cannot solve...
...Such limited objectives may have left many impatient. After all, those present were invited precisely because they share the same moderate leftist outlook; with the G-20 summit, being billed as perhaps the decisive policy event, due to be held within days, many observers had expected a more substantive policy discussion on ways out of the crisis...
...changed, consider this: only about 25% of a person's optimism may be hardwired in his genes, according to some studies. That's in contrast to the 40% to 60% heritability of most other personality traits, like agreeableness and conscientiousness. Science suggests that the greater part of an optimistic outlook can be acquired with the right instruction - a theory borne out in a study of college freshmen by Seligman. Pessimistic students who took a 12-week optimism-training course devised by Seligman - which included exercises like writing a letter of gratitude then reading it aloud to someone - were less likely...