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Samuel E. Asher and Dina D. Pomeranz are Ph.D. candidates in the Department of Economics at Harvard. Melanie L. Harris is a student at the Harvard Extension School. They are the Board of J Street U Harvard...
...mortality figures were even closer, with a 68.7% death rate aboard the Titanic and 67.3% for the Lusitania. What's more, the ships sank just three years apart - the Titanic was claimed by an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and the Lusitania by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. But on the decks and in the passageways and all the other places where people fought for their lives, the vessels' respective ends played out very differently...
...Cheeze-Its at CVS, only to walk all the way back to the Quad, trusted Cheez-Its in hand, sending ludicrous texts messages in lolcatz lingo, trying to find someone to join the party of one: “oh hai; u wantz to come overz...
Researchers have long known that for women, saying sorry often and right after any offense is part of their conversational arsenal, one of the tools they use to keep relationships steady. It's more a course correction than a U-turn. Women are more likely than men to apologize when they're only partially to blame. They even say sorry when they're not at fault, as a way of expressing empathy. For men, an admission of a mistake has always been a little more fraught, tinged as it is with an acknowledgment of weakness. Therefore, the more alpha...
...corporate world. Many a failing company has been transformed by new leadership or some sort of reorganization. An education consultancy published a report last year that pointed to Continental Airlines and the New York City Police Department as entities that in the mid-1990s were able to effect "rapid U-turns from the brink of doom to stellar success." (Hence Domino's Pizza's new ad campaign, the Pizza Turnaround, which highlights its efforts to make its core product taste less like cardboard.) (See TIME's education covers...