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...OFFICE POOL PRIMER...
Running Wednesday through Saturday of this past week, an orientation for more than 40 new members of the incoming U.S. Congress was held at the Kennedy School of Government. Friday's panel, which examined relations between the White House and Congress, ostensibly sought to provide a primer on how first-year representatives can get along with the White House...
...subletting condos down in Florida. But what about the rest of us? The presidential morass has reached a point where it's not only trying our patience but also testing our capacity to grasp just what's going on. So with that in mind, TIME.com has produced this handy primer, keeping pace with the legal proceedings in the Sunshine State and beyond...
Lynn Roney and Pat Smith are clearly dumbfounded by such cluelessness. They co-wrote the very helpful investing primer Wow the Dow (Simon & Schuster; $14), which is based on 10 years' experience guiding their two girls, Shannon and Danielle, into the stock market. It is their belief that investing is empowering, interesting and potentially profitable, and they've got spreadsheets to prove it. Kids are already expert consumers, say the authors, and so have the capacity to be successful investors...
...book that Harvard undergraduates are going to buy in large or even modest quantities. We are more inclined to discuss moral leadership as an abstraction in section than as a topic of deep personal interest. The easiset way to read Coles's book is as a primer on the qualities of moral leadership, as a guide to what we have seen and looked for in moral leaders. This might also be the least appealing way to read it, as far as college students are concerned; we think we are too worldly and intelligent for such romantic and familiar conceptions. Maybe...