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Daniel T. Gilbert understands disappointment. He understands when a Bartley’s hamburger fails to fulfill your innermost desires, and when your new orange ski jacket just doesn’t cut it. Gilbert has heard it all a thousand times before. Really. That’s because Gilbert, the recent subject of a New York Times Magazine profile entitled “The Futile Pursuit of Happiness,” has spent the last decade studying disappointment. The Psych 1 prof took some time this week to bash Ouija boards, lament his lack of groupies and educate...
...It’s hard to keep focused on the rest of life when you’ve just lost a couple of thousand dollars,” he said...
...considering the damage from some of the previous Harvard-Yale tailgates to the intramural fields, Ohiri might not be in the best of playing conditions for either of the soccer teams after a few thousand students tramp around on it for 10 hours—even if U-Hauls and kegs aren’t allowed on the field...
...IRAQ "General Shinseki, the Army Chief of Staff, told [Bush] he was going to need several hundred thousand [troops]. And guess what? They retired General Shinseki for telling him that...
...earning less than the $200,000." This is infuriating, a textbook example of Kerry trying to have it all ways. It is very similar to his position on American troop strength in Iraq. Bush, he says, was wrong not to listen to General Eric Shinseki, who said several hundred thousand troops were necessary to do the job. But Kerry doesn't favor sending more troops. Indeed, he drops awkward hints about bringing troops home. He later compounded his tax felony--and reinforced his eerie similarities to Bush the Elder--by making a read-my-lips promise not to raise taxes...