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Sure enough, those who imagined themselves in the waiter's shoes lost some of their self-control. They were willing to spend significantly more on the watches and cars than those who read the waiter's tale without being instructed to empathize.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession Psychology: We Will Spend Again | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

Robert W. Jensen, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas, told a small audience yesterday that Americans will continue to encounter difficulties in dismantling white privilege because many in the white community are afraid to discuss racial issues. The noontime discussion, which took place in the Phillips Brooks...

Author: By Sami M. Khan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Confronts White Privilege | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

Yes. It was so subtle, it took a long time to wake up to the fact I'd become a different person. When I first started, there was no way I would call someone on the phone and pretend to be someone else. By the end of it, I was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Tax Collector | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

For all the reflexive analogies, this is not the 1930s, when Babe Ruth took a $10,000 salary cut (roughly what A-Rod earns per swing) and New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker told theaters to show only cheery films. And yet we're channeling our grandparents, who were taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Recession: America Becomes Thrift Nation | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

Once talks begin, the U.S. ought to be willing to put a range of blandishments on the table - just as it has in the past. Economic aid, security guarantees and, down the road, even diplomatic recognition for North Korea - all that would be available to Pyongyang, so long as it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the U.S. Should Talk to North Korea | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

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