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...mean, insist co-authors Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval. They bravely--and persuasively--endorse a more traditional feminine style. Says Koval: "The business world has developed in a male culture, where the worst thing that a man could say to another man is, 'You're a wimp. You're not tough enough.' As women came into business, a lot of them felt they had to emulate that. No one stopped to think that you could do it a different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nice Girls Get Even | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...just three and a half minutes of Chris Bridges doing some world-class MCing. “Ultimate Satisfaction,” featuring Field Mob, is probably worth hearing at least once or twice. “Runaway Love,” featuring a Talib Kweli-esque wimp-rap beat and an especially nondescript Mary J. Blige, features some poignant (and, more importantly, listenable) storytelling. “Slap” is on the David Banner blues-rap tip, and it’s about time more popular rappers started ripping him off—you can?...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD Review: Ludacris, "Release Therapy" | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

Picking concentrations is often most successful through the process of elimination. Hist 10a is as ancient as the gray-haired profs who run the department. You’re afraid of heights, so William James Hall and anthropology are out (wimp). “Complex Fourier Analysis?” Nice try, Linguistics. Decision-making causes migraines and impairs all sense of judgment, so you head to the Kong, have a scorpion bowl, and surmise Seoul might be a good place to live (those OCS emails about teaching SAT’s in South Korea will finally have some purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: East Asian Studies | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...circulating nettlesome quotes to reporters on Tuesday. Media Matters for America put together a cheeky "Suggested questions for the White House press corps to ask on Tony Snow's first day." A column by Snow last September, at the height of the Hurricane Katrina fallout, said: "Begin with the wimp factor. No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.... His presidential report card already shows an ?A' on foreign policy, but with the exceptions of tax policy and judicial selections, he remains a domestic-policy cipher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bush Chose Tony Snow as His New Spokesman | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...evidence on WMD was a "slam dunk"), but the verdict of his subordinates in State of War is particularly withering. "George Tenet liked to talk about how he was a tough Greek from Queens," a former Tenet aide tells Risen before going on to use a vulgar word for wimp to describe him instead. "He just wanted people to like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book Behind the Bombshell | 1/3/2006 | See Source »

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