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...course, you can train yourself to be optimistic through sheer mental discipline. Ever since psychologist Martin Seligman crafted the phrase "learned optimism" in 1991 and started offering optimism training, there's been a thriving industry in the kind of thought reform that supposedly overcomes negative thinking. You can buy any number of books and DVDs with titles like Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude, in which you will learn mental exercises to reprogram your outlook from gray to the rosiest pink: "affirmations," for example, in which you repeat upbeat predictions over and over to yourself; "visualizations" in which you post...
Harry Mattison, a member of the Harvard Allston Task Force and a vocal critic of the City’s planning process, said that the election was a critical moment for City reform, and that he and other Allston activists would be making their voices heard in the coming weeks...
...want to live in the most productive, creative, and prosperous nation in the world, what is it you have to do?” Gingrich asked. “The answer is to reform litigation, regulation, taxation, health, education, and infrastructure...
...this moment, many Americans are longing for a President who is more bully, less pulpit. The President who leased his immense inaugural good will to the hungry appropriators writing the stimulus bill, who has not stopped negotiating health-care reform except to say what is nonnegotiable, whose solicitude for the wheelers and dealers who drove the financial system into a ditch leaves the rest of us wondering who has our back, has always shown great promise, said the right things, affirmed every time he opens his mouth that he understands the fears we face and the hopes we hold...
...Indeed, with Obama's signature issue of health care reform in the balance and his poll numbers on the decline, a visit to the Southeast Asian city where he lived for four years as a child will hardly give him the boost he needs with the American public. But given his obvious affection for Indonesia, it is not a question of if he will pay a visit, but when. "There were a lot of people planning things but the bottom line is that it was delayed and not cancelled," says business consultant Dennis Heffernan, who is planning to make...