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According to your book, you don't consider what we're doing here - a phone interview - to be an actual conversation. Why is that? What makes a conversation a conversation? What we do when we sit down and talk, I think, is very ancient and essential. And that's why I restrict my definition of conversation to in-person exchanges. Obviously, what we're doing right now is a conversation, but it's of a certain kind. You don't get to see what I look like or what my body language is or what my facial expressions...
What would you say to the standard piece of advice about staying away from talk about religion and politics? I think it's better to go very gently out onto thin ice if you don't know your context. If there's a chance that you may offend, I suggest that religion and politics - religion especially these days - is an arena of conversation that should be entered very gingerly...
...writing this book made you anxious around other people? Do people notice you looking at them in conversation? Fool that I am, it never occurred to me. I once knew a therapist, and I said to him, "When you go to a party or a dinner, you must think about people in terms of what their hang-ups and problems are, right?" And he said, "No, I just throw it out the window. Obviously if someone is flagrantly neurotic or OCD, I'm going to notice it as a professional. But generally I manage to keep my social life strictly...
Well, not quite all-out. The big holdout on price cuts is TD Ameritrade. But industry watchers say they'll be the next to act. "I think a move is imminent for TD Ameritrade," says David Lo, director of investment services at J.D. Power & Associates. "[Their trading fees] are higher than everyone else so they almost have to do something." (See the best business deals...
...angry that the Olympic track designers have been pushing the limits in recent years, and did not install protective walls around the tricky final turn until after the tragedy. "This should not have happened," Lawthers says. "You know that a track can injure your son. You don't think it can kill him. I so feel for his mother. She thought she was sending her son to the Olympics. She didn't expect him to go to war and not come home." (Watch a video about a proud Olympic luge...