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...love, peace and happy or negative ones like agony, evil, hurt and failure. Speed is everything, since the survey tests automatic associations. When respondents are told to link the desirable traits to whites and the undesirable ones to blacks, their fingers fairly fly on the keys. When the task is switched, with whites being labeled failures and blacks called glorious, fingers slow considerably, a sure sign the brain is struggling...
...It’s possible it’s genetic: my dad has yet to master the email. Or maybe being raised by a psychoanalyst doubling as a mother ingrained in me certain over-analytical idiosyncrasies like this one. The daunting task of something that should be “easy” becomes a challenge you can’t mess up. The possibility that I might be known as “four wheels” to those in the below five foot club became a threat to my very existence as an over-achieving and successful child...
...People Magazine that contained an important book review. Two Duane Reade’s and three subway stations later, I returned triumphant, with that week’s special “Brangelina” cover in hand. I was so confident in my ability to handle this simple task that I didn’t even bother to look inside the magazine. This was not treading water, or even mastering the ever-elusive cartwheel. This was easy, and I was (almost) a college graduate...
...Both are inquiries into the truth and complexity of life.” Garber’s book comes at a time when Harvard is in the midst of an effort to revitalize the arts on campus. University President Drew G. Faust created a 20-person task force last year to evaluate the role of arts at Harvard. The task force is chaired by fellow English Professor Stephen Greenblatt, in addition to student and faculty membership. The College unveiled new secondary fields in music and dramatic arts, giving more recognition to what used to be offered only as extracurricular activities...
...format and avoided purely personal attacks. Occasionally stumbling over some of his sharper rehearsed lines, he muted their effectiveness. Didn't once fluster Obama, though he did lay down the foundation he needs to try to mount a comeback by sowing doubts about the Democrat. Pulled off his primary task more deftly than even his aides could have hoped...