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Will the recession result in a higher demand for comedy? -Yaara Tal, Herzliyya, Israel I tell you what'll be a great recession comedy: Crazy Grandma at the Wheel. The movie's only going to cost $5. That's my new thing. All my new films are going to cost $5, or $2 if you bring your own beer. Then we just do one a month, and you'll have Crazy Grandma at the Wheel No. 12 in theaters next July. That's the kind of stuff I'm going to be working on to fight this recession...
...Optimalist" Most people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of deluded cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor who taught the university's most popular course, Positive Psychology, from 2002 to 2008. "It certainly doesn't mean being Pollyannaish and thinking everything is great and wonderful...
...Taylor does not sell expensive clothes and accessories and it does not sell cheap ones. That puts it right in the center of the drop-off in middle class buying power. Firms including Liz Claiborne (LIZ) and Talbot's (TAL) are in about the same spot. Ann Taylor is probably much better off than genuinely failing retailers including Bon-Ton (BONT) and Gap (GPS). Ann Taylor, of course, is not Wal-Mart which will most likely stay in a world all its own for the duration of the downturn...
...will agree to lower interest rates in exchange for Tal Ben-Shahar’s ’96 autograph...
...questions—and propose answers—puts him at the forefront of the growing field of happiness research. New releases such as “The How of Happiness,” “The Happiness Hypothesis,” and Harvard’s own Tal Ben-Shahar’s “Happier” are signs that its never been trendier to be happy in our Prozac nation. But Gilbert and his colleagues are quick to emphasize the difference between self-help texts and his work, which aims to inform readers rather than...