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...always trying to push him...I’m saying, ‘Lance, let’s go! You can get this guy!’”Salsgiver credits a counterintuitive, decidedly un-Harvard approach to his summertime success. He was aggressive rather than patient: “thinking less” and swinging with a former confidence.Following the summer, he was tempted to join classmates Zak Farkes, Frank Herrmann, and John Wolff in signing professional contracts and ending his time in Cambridge prematurely. He engaged in brief negotiations with the Oakland...
...When Cunningham, a former Navy fighter pilot ace in Vietnam, refused to be hospitalized, Dr. Smith "arranged for a patient contract not to act on his [suicidal thoughts] and he brought in a support group of other patients and another ace Navy pilot who had a history of depression and who provided support and monitoring." Cunningham also received medication...
Traditional television will see a painful 10% drop in revenues from advertising over the next two years, says Bernoff, so "like a dying patient accepting a terminal condition, the networks have had to accept a change in how they do business. Audiences are shrinking, but rather than just sit around and suffer, TV networks decided to diversify." All the talk about how teenagers and kids are turning away from television may be true, he says, but "young people will get jobs, get married, buy houses, buy big expensive TV sets and turn into the same people who are watching...
...corruption investigations lead to sentencing, not least because officials tend to protect their own. Farmers who once trusted the central government's ability to fix problems find their faith in the system dimming and their anger rising. "They had been told that reform was coming, so they were patient," says Philip Brown, an economist who studies rural China and teaches at Colby College. "But now they see that the reforms don't go far enough, and they think, This is what we've been waiting for?" The official Chinese media, which has tried to educate farmers on their basic rights...
...further outraged Shi'ites. For their part, Shi'ite politicians point out that thousands in their community have been killed in Sunni terrorist attacks since the fall of Saddam Hussein. "After every tragedy, every time that the terrorists pour [gasoline] over our emotions, we tell our people to be patient, to remain calm," said Jassim al-Mutairi, a political aide to al-Sadr. "But each time, we worry that the next [terrorist] attack will be the one to light the match...