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Messier is optimistic that his friend will succeed where previous French leaders failed, but he isn't ready to shift Messier Partners' HQ from New York City to Paris just yet. "The U.S. is the country of the second chance--where there isn't so much jealousy, and if you've had problems that you try to rebound from, everyone will applaud and will try to help," Messier explains...
...larger, cross-cultural and global pattern of joy. According to survey data representing 2 million people in more than 70 countries, happiness typically follows a U-shaped curve: among people in their mid-40s and younger, happiness trends downward with age, then climbs back up among older people. (That shift doesn't necessarily hold for the very old with severe health problems.) Across the world, people in their 40s generally claim to be less happy than those who are younger or older, and the global happiness nadir appears to hit somewhere around...
...pipeline—in elementary and middle schools—are generating smaller numbers than have been coming up and through high school,” said Payzant, who led the Boston Public Schools from 1995 to 2006. “There’s no dramatic shift in the dropout rate or graduation rate of students. It’s overall demographics...
...water from the collections. “We’re successfully drying everything out,” said Pamela Spitzmueller, the chief conservator for special collections in the Harvard University and College Libraries. The pipe burst was discovered by a staff member who was put on an extra shift during Saturday’s downpour to check for flooding, according to Harvard College Library spokeswoman Beth Brainard. The pipe had already been scheduled for a maintenance check, Brainard added. The library’s emergency team was on site within 10 minutes of the first report and worked throughout...
...really good race. I watched it with Megan [Watson]. We thought they were way too far right.” The B division boat took some chances in their Sunday triumph, starting the race as the lone boat on the right side of the river, anticipating a favorable shift in wind direction. “We did a few things that the coach didn’t exactly approve of,” Bock said. “Luckily, it paid off. Technically, that shouldn’t have worked.” Bock and Powers, who are sailing...