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...business involves the public sector and government employees. The working day is extremely short - just four hours in some agencies - and if you are dealing with a male employee then he is most likely to be in a snappish, intolerant mood brought on by lack of tea, cigarettes and sleep. If she is a woman then most probably she will be totally distracted by how she will manage to brave the traffic to pick up her children from school and have the warm iftar meal ready by 6 p.m., when the daily fast ends. She will usually skip work early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Business During Ramadan | 10/1/2007 | See Source »

...will have to maintain its highest level of play from the get-go, which it failed to do against Penn State, losing the doubles point in a sweep and leaving its singles players to climb out of a hole. “To a certain extent, we were sleep-walking through some of the matches,” junior co-captain Chris Clayton said. Given how dominant the Crimson was in its first two matches—cruising to consecutive 6-1 victories against George Washington and Penn—the team’s early complacency against Penn State?...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Tennis Advances to ECAC Semifinals, Loses to Top Seed | 9/30/2007 | See Source »

Perhaps he assumed my mumbling was a result of being overcome by his thought-provoking threads. Really, I was just sleep-deprived and latte-less. It was only as the week went on and I spied dozens of other undergrads sporting the same uniform that I took notice of the phenomenon...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Positively Puzzling | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

...says, "and my social life has taken a beating. I'm sure friends think I'm out somewhere glamorous, but I'll be home reading a story with my kids." Ask her what she wishes were available to buy at the click of a mouse, and she answers, "Sleep! I can't tell you how valuable that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-commerce: It's Now Just a Click Away | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard had its disadvantages, and the students readily acknowledged the pressure-cooker atmosphere they felt while on campus. Salahudeen noticed that he didn’t sleep as much as he used to and found that he hung out with people less often than he had at Tulane. “I missed hanging out with my friends, eating crawfish,” he says...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: To Here and Back Again | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

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