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...adjunct professor at the Law School. “Ashish Nanda is known far and wide for his deep understanding of law and other professional service firms,” said Law School Dean Elena Kagan in a press release on Tuesday. “He is the perfect person to lead our executive education programs and to conduct research on, and teach our students about, important aspects of the legal profession.” Nanda teaches courses that do not pertain to just theory of law, reflecting the Law School’s attempt to better prepare students...
...Stefan has always been a very quiet, private person, and quite frankly I was shocked. But in a good way,” says Zebrowski-Rubin’s sister, Zarya A. Rubin...
...highly recruited] go to his head,” Tillman says. “But he doesn’t draw attention to himself. In an era when a lot of people are looking for individual attention, he has stayed well-grounded.”This desire for personal accolades can easily arise when players grow accustomed to standing out in high school. However, the freshman has quickly recognized that the college game has no room for big egos.“The college game is a lot faster,” Gibbons observes. “The team...
...second culprit for blunders in affective forecasting is “presentism,” or when people allow current conditions to dictate perceptions of the past and the future. A person who is currently hungry overestimates how hungry he will be in the future, and therefore overbuys at the grocery store. On a full stomach, presentism results in the opposite effect...
...maintaining a pristine reputation in the public eye and smoothing over rough patches for the good of a party or administration often mean politicians and their spouses are stuck together, for better or worse. In other cases, the influence of money and power creates a situation in which one person in the marriage has his or her interests and ambitions subordinated to those of the spouse...