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...purchases aren't always the best purchases: "Despite your initial excitement and a high price tag, adaptation guarantees that your focus will soon stray from the wondrous pleasures of your new computer or larger apartment, consigning them to mere comfort status. Rather than binging on such big, costly amenities, a better - and cheaper - strategy for boosting your daily satisfaction quotient would be to add many more simple, inexpensive ones ... After all, on any given Monday morning, your comfortable bank balance pales beside a good cup of coffee...
...surprise me now, Bob!” Smith replied. The library system was in a process of erosion even before the financial crisis, said Darnton, who worried that the cost-cutting measures of the next few years would compromise the importance of libraries on campus. But Darnton sought to stray a little from the mold of questions based on narrow interests, saying he was concerned for the library system on behalf of all of Harvard. “I think the library does represent the collective interest of the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences—and beyond that...
...about it—about that patient face of his—made me so mad. Mad in the way you get when someone elbows you in the eye but says it’s an accident. It wasn’t anyone’s fault that that stray brick had messed up Ezekiel’s ear. But that didn’t mean he was defunct. And even if he was a Negro, it was still such a waste: that this man, whose family was “away” (dead), was about to just toss...
...think that he had signaled the Fed was done raising interest rates. "He said, flatly, no," she reported on her program at about 3:15 p.m. the following Monday, causing stock prices to drop sharply before the market closed. He called that move a mistake and vowed not to stray from "regular and formal channels" of communication...
...biggest grievance, personally, is that no one considers the flip side. While I have occasionally heard a stray Princeton girl or guy complain about a perceived lack of handsome men, I think I can count the number of times on one hand — while I’d need all the hands of the students in my Developmental Psych lecture (hint: it’s held in Friend 101, and people sit on the floor) to tally up the opposite grievance. What makes the boys think they’re any better than we are? Somehow...