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...ever-pressing question of what to wear. Faced with slushy, icy terrain on the Monday morning commute, students broke out bulky jackets and the occasional pair of moon boots. Shorts and flip-flops, which have been spotted around campus throughout the mild winter months, were definitely out. The cold snap brought confusion to some students’ outfits. “Sunday, I saw people running around in shorts, jumping in the snow and not knowing what to do,” said Gabriel M. Scheinmann ’08. The change in weather has forced many students to burrow...
...speech to the National Economic Social Advisory Council, he sounded as if he were campaigning: "My policies have made the economy grow, I have made drug offenses drop," he said, "and I will eradicate poverty within the next three years." And if he did call a snap election, Thaksin is assured of at least one vote. Back in At Samart, Grandma Ouan tells a reporter that the cow Thaksin promised still hasn't showed up. As if on cue, a motorcycle roars up to her modest wooden house. On the bike is a young veterinarian from the Ministry of Agriculture...
...this book seemed like a good idea at the time. Two Manhattan couples are busily glossing over the structural flaws in their marriages and in their personal value systems, minding their own business, when Sept. 11 arrives to smack them upside their well-coiffed heads. And who better to snap the reaction shot than Jay McInerney, novelist to the cool and moneyed, author of Bright Lights, Big City? Midlife epiphanies, check. Astute social observation, check. Reality check, check...
...more resilient, too, under the leadership of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. He has been pushing to cut the nation's red tape and deregulate the economy. One of his biggest reforms involved privatizing the heavily state-funded postal service, a highly controversial issue that prompted him to call a snap election last year. December figures released last week suggested that some of the reforms are helping to restore confidence: exports rose by 17.5%, more than expected, while imports surged by 27%, reflecting healthy domestic demand and higher oil prices. Overall, the Japanese economy grew by an estimated...
Psychiatrist Hallowell offers some basic solutions to multitasking mania in a book to be published in April, titled CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap--Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD. Among his suggestions: prioritize ruthlessly ("Cultivate the lilies, or the things that fulfill you," he says, "and cut the leeches, those that deplete you"), allot 30 minutes a day for thinking, relaxing or meditating, and get significant doses of what he calls vitamin C--the live connection to other people. "As much as we are connected electronically, we have disconnected interpersonally," he says. Compulsive screen sucking...