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...write about the different stages that you went through afterward. What was that like? It's absolutely grief. In fact, I think it's worse than if someone had died, because this person chose to leave you. I mean, that's as big a rejection as can be. He did not want to marry me, and I thought, "I must be some kind of horrible person to have someone do this." I'd never heard of this happening to anybody, you know? It was just a complete depression...
Consider for a moment why certain stocks rallied. The news that gave Citi - and a bunch of other finance firms - such a boost was that the New York City-based company would be profitable for the months of January and February. Fantastic, but those results exclude asset write-downs (i.e., one of the big reasons the stock takes a beating most other days of the week). Another big gainer: United Technologies. What did the aerospace-equipment and industrial-products maker do to earn an 8.6% boost to its stock price? It said it would lay off 11,600 people. (Read...
...lives outward has the effect of diminishing our ability to engage in private contemplation and develop sincere personal thoughts—in other words, to be alone. Many seem to find solitude so uncomfortable that they feel compelled to share their thoughts with a mass audience. As I write this article, Facebook statuses inform me that one boy in my network “is napping” and another “is hungry.” Clearly, both are in reality dedicating time to grooming their technological image...
...three quarters teaching and one quarter research”—places a much larger emphasis on teaching than ladder-faculty positions do. Since the Fellows would be teaching “almost full time,” they may not have enough time to write and do research, said Gennaro Chierchia, chair of the Linguistics department. Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis said that he is optimistic about the fact that the position places such a large emphasis on teaching, since it may signal a shift in the qualities sought in future professors...
...weren't for Fortune Society," says Victor Chapman, 44, a Castle resident who served 3½ years in prison for assault (committed to support a crack habit) but who now appears at college literature courses to talk about the Society's therapeutic oral-history project that is helping him write his autobiography. (Read TIME's 1971 cover story about Attica prison...