Word: smarts
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...benefit of receiving early admission to the College, saying he thought students would miss that perk under the new policy. But Avery said that much of the perceived psychological effect is just an “urban myth.” “If you’re smart, you realize that nothing you do between November and December will have any effect,” he said. “As long as you don’t rob a bank.” —Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...right auteur-perps showed up for the job: Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) and Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill), plus a few other cult directors to provide zesty trailers of fake horror films. Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a zombie thriller with some bloody fabulous effects; it's fast, icky and smart. You can skip the second feature: Tarantino's Death Proof, above center, offers an hour of gaseous girl talk and an inane car chase. More than the autos get totaled here; so does Q.T.'s reputation as cinema's fanboy-genius...
...Smart, challenging, engaged, even-tempered and fair leaders raise the bar for employees a lot higher than do mean bosses. What is harder than treating people kindly? Being an evenhanded manager is definitely not a job for wimps; the faint of heart need not apply...
Even in comedy, where women were mandatory for smart repartee and the fade-out kiss, guys have elbowed them out of the equation. Forget Tracy and Hepburn. Today the standard pairing is some combination of Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Ferrell and one or more Wilsons. Wedding Crashers, Talladega Nights and Blades of Glory are basically male love stories: boy bonds with boy, boy breaks up with boy, boy and boy make up. The female interest is strictly nominal...
Orman, Chatzky and their sisters in armchair behavioral psychology do eventually get around to sharing specific strategies for saving for retirement, building up an emergency cash reserve and investing in mutual funds and stocks. But other books, like Kiplinger's Money Smart Women by Janet Bodnar, avoid the patronizing finger wagging and stick to giving advice that women can really use--like explaining when you can tap your Roth IRA to help with a down payment on your first house. You'll save so much money, you may decide to treat yourself to a latte. After all, you've earned...