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...writing skills as in his musicianship. Of course, good poetry doesn’t always make good lyrics, and the lyrics he chooses (at least in Spanish and English—I can’t speak to his selection of Hebrew lyrics) often show the kind of over-wrought balladeering that is endemic to folk music. To try to give you an idea, a sizeable chunk of his songs are in alternating quatrains; the hook to one song is, “Somebody make me laugh, / Somebody make me cry, / Somebody tell me something / That my heart can?...
Robert Sutton, an organizational psychologist who teaches at Stanford, introduced the rule in 2005 in the Harvard Business Review. He's hardly the first to reveal the disruptive damage wrought by workplace bullies, as shown by the depth of scholarly literature he cites. But something about Sutton's message hits a nerve. Maybe it's the epithet, which he defines helpfully as someone who persistently belittles and abuses those of inferior power or status. (As if we needed it spelled out.) Or maybe it's his argument that jerks exact a cost to the bottom line as they single-handedly...
...Spanish government just last year passed a law that includes such things as exhuming mass graves. This has been very hotly debated in Spain, some saying that this picks at scabs and opens up old wounds,” he says. The Spanish Civil War wrought havoc on civilian lives, but the current conflict, according to Epps, has been able to be largely ignored by America at large.“Life has hardly been disrupted [by the Iraq War],” he says. “Life at Harvard goes on, and we go to our classes...
...past marital infidelity on the Christian radio show of James Dobson, admitting he was carrying on with the House aide who became his third wife even as he was lambasting Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. In the upside-down leap of reasoning that this campaign season has wrought in the movement, hanging his dirty sheets from the window was enough to convince everyone that Gingrich is running - and landed him an invitation from Falwell to be this year's Liberty University commencement speaker. "He has admitted his moral shortcomings to me, as well, in private conversations," Falwell wrote...
...comedian Dave Chapelle wrought comic havoc by creating a fictional blind African-American who supports the Klu Klux Klan, unaware of his own blackness. But Farid Smahi is not a comedian, nor is he blind, although he does confound a stereotype: The son of Algerian parents and a longtime victim of anti-immigrant prejudice, Smahi is a candidate in France's forthcoming legislative election - for the anti-immigrant National Front of Jean-Marie...