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...some of his experiments, Mischel suggested to kids that they pretend the cookie is just a picture of a cookie, not the real thing. Those kids were able to wait longer than the kids in control groups. (As one child said, "You can't eat a picture.") But De Laurentiis' and Goin's experiences suggest that we might try another strategy, one whose short-term risks may impart a long-term lesson: let your lizard brain eat all the cookies you want until you realize how awful you feel. De Laurentiis says she was "constantly sick" in Paris. Goin...
...What were they so interested in? Media training - a testament to the narcissism of the profession, perhaps. The workshop culminated in mock TV interviews of newly minted pundits. The interrogations were suitably aggressive - the let's-pretend network must have been Fox News - though only a few newbie talking heads were rattled. One gentleman who came forward to playact a Q&A on the war in Iraq was asked if the recent capture and killing of terrorist al-Zarqawi showed that the Bush war was, in fact, working. Reviewing the tape afterwards, one of the workshop leaders complimented...
This change will be accompanied by a tangible increase in faculty numbers, but such resources could also be added without the creation of a separate school. To pretend that both are linked, as University Provost Steve E. Hyman did in a May 25 press release, is theatrical and misleading. The creation of SEAS is cosmetic, designed to increase the visibility of FAS in the face of competition from other, more prominent engineering schools. It is dictated by advertising, not even by industrial imperatives...
Sunlight streams through the trees on the lawn outside the Malkin Athletic Center, and the Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams are out in force, laughing as they pull poses and pretend to fight over their multitude of trophies for a photo shoot. With not only the Ivy League Championship but also the NCAA Championship under their belts, they have something to celebrate.And at the edge stands the man who made it all happen. Peter Brand, head coach of the Harvard fencing program since 1999, has overseen an almost miraculous turnaround in the sport?...
...black girl feels when her biological mother takes care of a white girl.“Mammy was my Mama. Even though she let me go, I miss her,” Randall writes in the novel. “Sometimes I comb through my long springy curls and pretend that the hand holding the comb is hers. But I don’t know what that looks like.”But the hands holding the copyright to “Gone With the Wind”—Mitchell’s heirs—thought Randall?...