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...huge sense of renewed confidence," says Ramsbotham. That same bounce lifted the city's productivity while Keegan was last in charge at the club, fans maintain, and even reduced sick leave in the city. "My boss has never seen me happier," says one, standing outside United's club shop, with its rails of freshly printed Keegan T-shirts nearly all cleaned...
...back as the Paleolithic era, arranged marriages served to forge networks between family groups, writes Stephanie Coontz in Marriage, a History. Families exchanged daughters and sons for labor, land, goods and status. These matches were so important that, in almost every society, a community member eventually set up shop in setting up unions; in northern India, it was the barber's wife, the nayan. "Be a matchmaker once," goes the Chinese saying, "and you can eat for three years...
...this, there may be a paradoxical logic to romantic love. Imagine a world without it, a world of rational shoppers looking for the best available mate. Unsentimental social scientists and veterans of the singles scene know that this world is not entirely unlike our own. People shop for the most desirable person who will accept them, and that is why most marriages pair a bride and a groom of roughly equal desirability. The 10s marry the 10s, the 9s marry the 9s and so on. That is exactly what should happen in a marketplace where you want the best price...
...check or just have some cash to burn, there are a few ways you can squander it around Cambridge: spend a night at the Charles Hotel and treat a few friends to brunch at Henrietta’s Table, or buy a handful of socks at the Andover Shop. But for everyone who wants to escape the memories of finals haunting the Square, you can blow it all on an exotic intercession trip. FM’s trawled the net to compile five of the best deals: Tibet: $500 can net you airfare and a luxurious four night stay...
...presidential campaign trail, rocketing past the Iraq war to the top of voter concerns. "For every candidate in either party, this is the supermarket-checkout moment: Do you get it? Do you understand what people are going through?" says Bruce Reed, who ran the policy shop for Bill Clinton's It's-the-economy-stupid campaign in 1992. "Candidates who feel voters' pain and have a plan to deal with it will do well in this environment. And those...