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...everyone is too busy for small talk, they’re into their own agenda, they don’t have time,” or, “what will they think if I start a conversation,” or, “connecting with a stranger is just not the way things are done around here, it is a Northeastern type of thing.” The barriers may be skills, paradigms or attitudes. It may be a simple cost-benefit calculation. Not doing it is easier than doing...
...opportunity cost of this passive approach is enormous. Not connecting, not transferring energy, not exploring mutual interests with a stranger, and thus not allowing one the possibility of broadening his circle, of building community, renders one into an individual, a powerless individual, a disempowered individual...
...that tourism officials hope will make the town a Mickey Mecca - and perhaps threaten Disney's copyright. Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig notes that a long-standing legal hypothetical asks: "What if two people independently wrote the same play?" The answer, he says: "Both get a copyright. Seems fact is stranger than cartoon." THE BOURSE Give 'Em Credit HSBC has for years snapped up assets across Asia and the Americas, but some analysts still balked at last week's purchase of U.S-based Household International for a vault-draining $14 billion in stock. Household, which gives credit and loans to "sub-prime...
Dodd’s no stranger to making hooch. Back in his home state of Tennessee, Dodd has experimented with making liquor in homemade stills. Among his potables: a vodka that was “too watery” and a whiskey that “had the consistency of a milkshake...
...even before the change in title, she is no stranger to planning work in Allston. Spiegelman said that, particularly over the past year, Allston planning has taken more and more of her time and she has had to delegate many of her real estate duties...