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...until some watchdog of etiquette claimed the turf and started drawing boundaries and making rules. Still, credit Judith Martin, the author of the syndicated Miss Manners advice column, with considerable alertness in spotting a tiny void in the decorum field and then moving in with well-wrapped parcels of wisdom about the Net and other conveniences of late 20th century life, like the answering machine and the fax. Though one might suspect her of being a grumpy traditionalist in these matters, or even a Luddite, Martin has pleasantly mixed feelings about the new technology. E-mail, she says...
...best moments, is alive with immortal incident (Dylan Thomas pawing Shelley Winters at The Players restaurant, or a local hostess mistaking Stravinsky for "a comic on the Molly Goldberg show"); with penetrating observation (Garbo is "the woman whose life everyone wants to interfere with"); and with a hard-won wisdom of the heart ("It's much easier to turn hate into love than to turn fear into love...
...certainly important, but they are also combated by severe drawbacks, such as never being able to find your I.D. card when it is torrentially raining or being able to turn off your phone while it is ringing in lecture. As we know, regular women can profit from the wisdom of celebrities in myriad ways. We have learned about the glories of Scientology, kaballah, and emotional cheating, all from these rarified personages. However, they can also instruct in eternal maxims, like the law of comparisons, for example, which states that no matter what size you are, you always look smaller...
...It’s common wisdom that the women of Africa are the backbone of the continent, yet these presidential positions generally go to warriors,” said Hunt, who is also the director of the KSG’s Women and Public Policy Program, which brought Johnson-Sirleaf to campus in August...
...nearly 15 years before leading the emerging markets research outfit at investment bank Salomon Smith Barney in London. In 1999, he moved to PIMCO, a leading bond manager in Newport Beach, Calif. with a strong emerging markets business.During the Brazilian financial crisis of 2002, El-Erian bucked conventional wisdom in contending that the country would improve its financial state and avoid defaulting on its loans, Heller recalled. He was proven right, leading to a big payoff for PIMCO—and boosting his prominence even higher.“He’s probably the most high-profile emerging markets...