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Diplomats are trained to stay in line. They promote national policy, but they never make it. Christopher Hill, the U.S.'s head envoy to North Korea, is that rare diplomat who did things differently, stepping out ahead of his talking points and managing to bring his bosses along with him. As a result, he is also helping to bring the most dangerous nation in Asia back into the global embrace...
...behavior, like the deep and unthinking tendency to conform, even in areas--like energy consumption--where conformity is irrelevant. For 30 years, Thaler has documented the ways people act illogically: we eat more from larger plates, care twice as much about losing money as about gaining it, fret over rare events like plane crashes instead of common ones like car accidents. That research underpins Nudge's argument that as policymakers go about their jobs--whether regulating the mortgage industry or organizing food in school cafeterias--they should design programs that give people choices but also invisibly coax them away from...
...fans can witness the evolution of ballet over the course of a single evening when the Ballet de l'Opéra performs The Four Temperaments (1946), Raymonda (1983), and Artifact Suite (2004), choreographed respectively by Balanchine, Nureyev and Forsythe, together in one show at the Bastille Opera. A rare treat, even if you don't know your plié from your pirouette. www.operadeparis.fr by Jeffrey T. Iverson...
...generously subsidizing those students who could otherwise not afford a university education. Providing financial assistance to over two-thirds of all undergraduates, the University can no longer be accurately labeled as a club for the fiscally fortunate. Harvard, and the Ivy League at large, is one of the rare places where social mobility actually works. Despite the protestations of Mr. Gladwell, the educational policies of the Ivy League will continue to enrich society for decades to come...