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According to your book, you don't consider what we're doing here - a phone interview - to be an actual conversation. Why is that? What makes a conversation a conversation? What we do when we sit down and talk, I think, is very ancient and essential. And that's why...
Well, that's a good segue into another thing you write about, which is boredom. What is the best way to deal with someone who is boring you in a conversation? That is absolutely one of the hardest questions. The basic structure of a conversation with a boring person is...
Political leaders typically change course not because they change their philosophy, but because the cost-benefit ratio in maintaining the status quo no longer makes sense. That was true for Rabin - who embraced the Oslo process after calculating that Israel could not forever count on unconditional U.S. support - and also...
The humble eggplant, known in some parts as aubergine and in South Asia as brinjal, has enjoyed a rare celebrity in India over the past few weeks. It has been the topic of spirited debate in town hall meetings and on television talk shows. The brinjal in question is no...
In addition to erecting new protective walls on the final curve, Olympic organizers moved the men's start down the mountain, to the area where the women's luge athletes were scheduled to start their race. The near vertical drop at the beginning of the luge runs helped sliders build...