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...wear dreads or let slip some slang," she says. "As a minority executive, you want to be plain vanilla. You don't want them to know you're struggling with child-care issues. You don't want to take vacations. You don't want to give them anything to suggest you're different, you can't cut it, you can't perform or that you aren't committed." The "invisible life" she once led outside the office came to light at Sears, where her boss told her he believes her ministry lends her integrity...
...ambition is simply lower than it is for others? It's a question--sometimes a charge--that hangs at the edges of all discussions about gender and work, about whether women really have the meat-eating temperament to survive in the professional world. Both research findings and everyday experience suggest that women's ambitions express themselves differently from men's. The meaning of that difference is the hinge on which the arguments turn...
...rich family, and you can inherit either the tools to achieve (think both Presidents Bush) or the indolence of the aristocrat. Grow up poor, and you can come away with either the motivation to strive (think Bill Clinton) or the inertia of the hopeless. On the whole, studies suggest it's the upper middle class that produces the greatest proportion of ambitious people--mostly because it also produces the greatest proportion of anxious people...
...realism. As a result, “Squid” explores the darker elements of family crisis—despair, resentment, and resignation—where “Tenenbaums” was prevented from plumbing too deeply into these emotions by ensemble comedy conventions. This is not to suggest that “Squid” isn’t a tremendously funny film. But its humor is rooted in the intractable narcissism and brutal selfishness of its protagonists. One laughs during “Squid” not out of delight, but in recognition of human stupidity...
Just a few years ago, this was Mission Impossible; today it is tantalizingly within our reach. It is no longer crazy to suggest that we can eliminate tuberculosis and malaria from the planet. It is no longer unthinkable to imagine a world without AIDS or extreme poverty. And this isn't hope talking, or faith. This is hard science pointing us toward a better, healthier world...