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...ironic that a culture of reflection is almost entirely absent at Harvard, where smart kids run around reading philosophical treatises and studying theoretical physics. For such thoughtful students, the type who would seem to require moments of solitary reflection, we are rarely alone. And when we are alone, we almost never spend the time reflectively. Assuming that eating a solitary meal in the dining hall is something that only a social misfit would do, we bring along a newspaper or a book “just in case” we find ourselves without dining partners. The lonely breakfast...
...lieutenants were female. If you've been given this road map and you see that others have gone before you and achieved, you never have in your mind the notion of failure. You have the notion that you can do it too, if you're good enough and smart enough and make the right decisions...
...chicks have chick lit, what do guys have? There's a clever answer out there--which unfortunately is just the other side of printable in a family magazine--but it is a serious question. So-called chick-lit authors like Helen Fielding and Candace Bushnell are writing smart, incisive, funny-as-hell books about what it's like to be a woman in the current romantic marketplace. Shouldn't a few guys step up and do the same? A few guys besides Nick Hornby, that...
...easy as it seems, the guys are convinced they have Ms. Right in their sights all along, and that belief never wavers. One finishes these books with a lurking suspicion that Bridget knows something about romance that these guys don't: sometimes your heart isn't as smart as you think...
...opinion is, why bring someone into the league if they can’t enhance the league?” Mazzoleni asked. “We have to be very smart, and allow people to make their pitch. We have to listen to what they have...