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...he’s hitting right now sets a tone for the rest of the team,” Rogers says of Douglas. “I give him a lot of the credit for the way I’ve been hitting. It’s going to rub off on the other guys and we’ll see a lot more wins out of it soon...
...hear under the espionage chicanery in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz, ornamenting the anti-Nazi smuggling in John Frankenheimer's The Train and underlining the grand folly of two British soldiers' Afghanistan caper in John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King. At times Jarre mocked his own mocking tone, as when he connived with Zucker in the spy parody Top Secret...
...Throughout it all, just make sure to keep a pleasant, professional tone. In negotiations, a threatening posture almost always backfires, says Ury. Hiring a lawyer or other adviser is a fine idea - but there's no need to mention to your employer that you've done that unless talks take an uncivil turn. Creating a paper trail is always a good idea: after each meeting, summarize what you were told and send an e-mail to the person who told it you, asking for confirmation that you understood all the points correctly...
...pair of stirring victories, Harvard can breathe a bit easier after getting a foothold in the league standings.“Once you get going, everything gets a lot easier,” Rogers said. “Getting two [wins] in a row today…sets the tone for the rest of our Ivy League season.”HARVARD 15, PENN 11Down 11-10 in the ninth, sophomore Sean O’Hara came to the plate with the bases loaded and one out, looking to deliver a sweep for the Crimson. The shortstop...
Thus Kroft's bizarrely meta question: "Are people going to look at this and say, 'I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money'?" - asking the President to analyze the public's reaction to his tone in an interview he was in the middle of. And thus the hyperventilating over Obama's Leno sit-down, coverage of which focused not on substance but on Obama's comparing his bowling skills to the "Special Olympics." Here's another thing F.D.R. didn't have to deal with: a public jaded by superficial, 24/7 political spin...