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...closest friends at Harvard through my extracurriculars. But, at the same time, I’ve developed these friendships on an individual basis, outside of the environment of the workplace, in the same way I’ve made my other friends. You can’t skimp on the time needed to build real relationships—they don’t come along as bonuses as you do work, and they don’t come as package-deals. I don’t have the answer about which two areas of life are the best to hold...
...Department of Health and Human Services since the Clinton Administration, the report charts the effects of 1996 welfare reforms on more than 700 mothers and their young children. The overall picture is bleak. While mothers' earnings rose modestly, many still lived in roach-infested housing, had to skimp on food and spent fewer hours singing and telling stories to their children. One bright spot: toddlers in day-care centers cognitively outpaced their peers in home settings by three months or more...
...change the cruel truth that Valentine’s Day is not optional. Do not be fooled when a date may reassure you that she’s open to your alternative conception of romance, with its emphasis on spontaneous affection without the pretense of custom. If you skimp on Valentine’s Day, she’s going to feel left out. She’ll wonder why other guys succeed in wooing their dates in spite of the artifice we loathe, and why she is the only girlfriend without a date. It?...
...economy, making a long transitional stop on all that he was doing on homeland security - he even slipped up once on the organizing "security" theme and said "economic stimulus" instead. But once he got to money matters, Bush touched all the bases and didn't even skimp on Enron (though the name was never mentioned). New safeguards for 401k and pension plans, stricter accounting standards, tougher disclosure laws, making sure CEOs were "held to the highest standard of conduct...
Teen flicks often skimp on the acting, but the performances here are quite accomplished. Stiles is understated and empathy-winning, though it's pretty clear from the editing (shots of Stiles' face followed by shots of a woman's feet doing intricate dance steps) that much of her dancing was done by a double. Still, by the end, the viewer is rooting just as hard for Stiles and her double to do well in the big end-of-the-movie dance audition as we once did for Jennifer Beals and her double at the big end-of-the-movie dance...