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This explanation of infatuation was devised by the economist Robert Frank on the basis of the work of Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling. Social life is a series of promises, threats and bargains; in those games it sometimes pays to sacrifice your self-interest and control. An eco-protester who handcuffs himself to a tree guarantees that his threat to impede the logger is credible. The prospective home buyer who makes an unrecoverable deposit guarantees that her promise to buy the house is credible. And suitors who are uncontrollably smitten are in effect guaranteeing that their pledge of love is credible...
...more recently, fashion-forward labels, better known for their $2,000 handbags and red-carpet-worthy frocks, are starting to take a closer look at the kindergarten crowd. "So many of our friends started having babies, and they asked us for thermal cashmere sweaters for their kids," says Robert Duffy, president of Marc Jacobs International. "We started making a few items and selling them in our stores." The items became so popular that Duffy signed a licensing deal with French children's-wear manufacturer Zannier Group and last spring launched a full line, including hoody sweatshirts, graphic Ts, jeans...
...Michael A. Gimbrone Jr., a pathology professor at HMS and Folkman’s first thesis student and postdoctoral fellow. “He truly touched my life in wonderful ways and encouraged in me a love of science which is what legacy is all about.” Robert J. D’Amato, an associate professor of ophthalmology, was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Folkman Laboratories and saw Folkman as both a father and a colleague. “He taught me always to return patients’ calls and find some way to give them hope...
...statement released Wednesday, Harvard spokesman Robert P. Mitchell said there are “no current discussions about or plans for change” in the ownership of the land, which was given to Harvard in the 1927 will of former Boston mayor Nathan Matthews...
...Yale registar’s office.Professors said they find themselves unable to depend on the ratings as much as they would like.“It was more effective in the past when the number of students who filled it out was higher,” said Robert A. Lue, executive director of undergraduate education in molecular and cellular biology. “Despite pleading e-mails...we’re only seeing 60 percent of the class. What 60 percent is that? It’s hard to interpret the results.”Last year, Lue overstepped...