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...standing baseball-and-business axiom that nice guys and girls finish last. Says Thaler: "We couldn't find one marketing book anywhere--and we combed through all of them--that had one sentence about the fact, 'Oh, and by the way, you should give a client a more comfortable seat, pick up their bags at the airport, compliment them on their ties.'" That's why the authors dismiss old think about office demeanor: "'Mean' to us is so last millennium...
...course, the President and his party still have some built-in advantages. The gerrymandering of the past decade has turned the vast majority of congressional districts into fortresses for incumbents, to the point where the number of House seats in serious contention is only about three dozen, compared with roughly 100 in the 1994 landslide that brought the G.O.P. to power with a 54-seat pickup. And the Republicans retain their advantage in money and, most operatives on both sides agree, the pinpoint sophistication of their turnout operation among a conservative base in which Bush still has nearly 90% approval...
...Memphis, the battle for the Ninth Congressional District seat has alienated the white candidate, State Senator Steve Cohen, from black constituents who believe the district would be better served by a black person because it is 60 percent black. The black candidate, however, is a high school dropout with no political experience...
Unless you’re bringing a fork and knife to the bathroom, there’s no reason to fear sharing a toilet with sixteen of your closest friends. “There’s nothing you can get off a toilet seat, unless you ate off of it,” Harvard University Health Services (UHS) Chief of Medicine Soheyla D. Gharib writes in an e-mail. “Most disease transmission occurs by mucus membrane to mucus membrane contact, coughing, food handling by people with infections such as hepatitis, sharing utensils, or sharing needles...
...full-fledged political activist. No longer was her show about pleasing her audience, instead it was about presenting a set of talking points to be made so that the Democrats can take back the House. Her audience had come to see her perform, but her performance took second seat to her political message. Although her display of righteous indignation was met with applause, the applause should really have been for her singing, not for her politics...