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...bulbs means giving up the understated softness of a regular incandescent. But you also gain something precious when you buy a compact fluorescent: status. When your friends see the bulb screwed into the socket of your lamp, many of them will think you're a better, more socially conscious person (which you may well be). And as the aphorist Publilius Syrus wrote a couple thousand years ago, "A good reputation is more valuable than money...
...never ceases to be motivated by the educational mission of the University she works for—a sentiment shared by her husband as well.“The single most valuable thing that we’ve been given is a great education...if you are a learned person, you have the opportunity and ability to contribute to society in a way that simply does not exist if you are not,” says her husband, explaining that Mendillo’s investment work broadens educational opportunities for a large array of people...
...working groups—to propose “innovative” solutions for the remaining $143 million deficit. When asked to explain the growth of the administration in the past few years, Smith reverts to stock optimism: “I’m a very forward-looking person,” he says. When asked to comment on budget plans that could impact a particular group of people, Smith responds by simply affirming his commitment to supporting them...
...Faced with an endowment in free fall in late October, he arranged a meeting with former FAS Dean Henry Rosovsky, who had once weathered a recession of his own at the FAS helm. Smith brought one person with...
...While department heads scrambled to draft proposals for 15 percent cuts in their budgets in accordance with a December directive from Smith, the former cryptographic researcher emerged from the frenzy of the financial uncertainty as the “point person,” the man tasked with setting fiscal policies to close a gaping deficit. Sweet—who often flanks Smith in various meetings with FAS administrative deans—knows the numbers well enough to tell units how particular proposals for budget cuts will save, or perhaps even cost money...