Word: thank-you
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...class was taught at Harvard, but FM decided it would be a good idea to remind students about what Miss Manners had in mind when discussing how to be polite, particularly in situations unique to our fair university. And we’re not talking about how to write thank-you notes...
...Prove that chivalry isn’t dead: Gentlemen, hold the door open for the girl behind you. Ladies, say thank-you but hold the next one open for him. And if you live in a swipe card-based locality, don’t let the door slam when someone from your dorm is approaching: like in a rear-view mirror, objects are closer than they appear. You can afford to wait, and they’ll most likely return the favor...
MIND YOUR MANNERS In a competitive market--and this is one--it pays to be polite, says Dario Bravo, who manages internship services at the UCLA career center. So dress appropriately when you head out to your interview, and send a thank-you note directly afterward. "Not an e-mail, a paper one," he notes...
...motion, the emotion, the very movieness of movies. Released in two parts, like many a Shaw Bros. thriller of Hong Kong's golden past, Kill Bill is an effusion of movie love by the prime nerd-curator and hip creator of cult action films. Kill Bill is his thank-you note to the Hong Kong kung-fu epics, Japan's yakuza gangster dramas and '70s Italian westerns and horror films that shaped his sensibility...
Future scholars may argue with the substance of Reagan's principles but not with their pedigree, for now they will have a paper trail of the kind historians can only dream. It was his Vice President, George Herbert Walker Bush, who was famous for the thank-you notes he flecked off in every direction. But few people knew that Reagan ranks among the most prolific Presidents, author of more than 5,000 letters on everything from his love of Snoopy to his guilt about sex, his hatred of gossip and his taste for Ayn Rand. And so the private account...