Word: performativity
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...stuck to its case that it has been careful to tell investors exactly what is going on inside the financial unit. Yesterday, the firm said, "We made $8.6B in financial services in 2008, and we have an excellent franchise that we are restructuring to perform in the current environment. Also, we have an "originate to hold" model that is highly collateralized, so we have a more conservative approach than the U.S. consumer banks...
...place like Harvard, where the pressure to perform can seem overpowering, it is easy to feel alone. Every day, we, like millions of other college students around the country, encounter challenges to our sense of self esteem and peace of mind, and we must find ways to overcome these obstacles. Psychological research consistently tells us that one of the best ways to work through such difficulties is to share them—to talk it over with a friend or counselor or to simply ask for help when we feel overwhelmed...
...accordion) takes his talent to the streets of Harvard Square. One might have spotted Michel last summer playing Klezmer music with Ted Sharpe ’76, a computational biologist at The Broad Institute at MIT and an amateur fiddle player. Michel and Sharpe are not the only street performers who boast an impressive resume of academic credentials and musical training. Street performers around Cambridge and Boston defy the stereotypical perception of performers as glorified panhandlers. Many of them are at least college-educated and have a range of other careers available to them—from teaching to designing...
...practicing Catholic, Renzi says he won't let the Vatican guide his policy. In the primary, he ran a classic grass-roots campaign using the Internet, Facebook and other tactics drawn from Obama's successful presidential run. "I'm a politician," he says. "I don't perform miracles. I've just tried to make the administration of government work better...
...called Bigg Boss, alongside her erstwhile nemesis Shetty - a small number of Britons somehow avoided the Goody circus. They failed to buy either of her memoirs, Jade: My Autobiography and Jade: Catch a Falling Star; they never dabbed her fragrance, Shh ... Jade Goody, behind their ears; they didn't perform physical jerks to any of her five fitness DVDs or try recipes from her cookbook; they even missed her many broadcast and print appearances. Yet enough of their compatriots did these things to transform the penniless girl without obvious prospects or talents into a wealthy tycoon and eponymous brand...