Word: successful
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...effectively when they arise. Teachers, psychologists and kids themselves tend to side with Marano and against the theory of powerlessness proposed by Harris. Parents are vital to a child's social well-being, they insist, and they offer lots of ideas about how parents can boost a child's success with peers...
...Matt Cooper of Newsweek, the odds-on favorite to win (though, having actually performed at the Improv, he was regarded the way Soviet-bloc Olympians used to be: as suspiciously professional). The round, bald Cooper suggested that Al Gore might try to copy Bill Clinton's formula for success and have an affair, then dismissed it with a riff on the media's skeptical reaction. "How do we know?" he had scornful reporters saying. "There's no DNA on the dress! Prove it!" Alone among the contestants, Cooper could do passably good imitations, including of Clinton and Gore as teenagers...
...Success doesn't require a gaudy debut. Jewel's debut sold 1,000 copies its first week; it went on to sell 6.2 million. Ruffhouse Records' head, Chris Schwartz, says CDs that survive this fall will need "something special." Here's what they're offering...
Whether or not that success will follow depends on the reception of this rather short and sometimes bland album. While the sound is quite unique, it may be perceived as a little too much of the same thing. Monotonous tracks like "Jessica" and "That's the Way Love Goes" really begin to drag. The record is also rather short; the 10 songs are only about 45 minutes long in all. The disc ends with a 15 minute extra track that kills any of the excitement that Peach Head had created. Then again, Natural Calamity never claimed to be exciting...
...your case, that's where the fine line between being rude and being direct comes in. You need to let the guy know that you are not interested, which you obviously have tried doing with limited success. Although you may be the nicest person ever (and it seems like you are, having put up with this so far), you need to be more assertive...