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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese businessman. The couple subsequently divorced. She was articulate and confident, and I got the feeling that for her, real life was what you did while looking for the next big score. Then she said something that struck me as unusual coming from an adult-video actress: "I'm really into the stock market...
...best met our criteria: the person who, for better or worse, personified our times and will be recorded by history as having the most lasting significance. I explain how we arrived at that conclusion in a story on page 48. Let us know if you agree. Either way, I'm confident that you'll appreciate the work of the great writers who make personal the legacies of all three of our finalists...
Beware the prohibitive resolution though. You may find yourself victimized by the "don't-think-about-elephants" phenomenon. Injunctions against a certain activity can cause a person to become obsessed with engaging in that very activity. When I'm in a nonsmoking room in a hotel, all I can think about is smoking. Had I been in a smoking room, I wouldn't have given cigarettes a second thought. Prohibition stimulates desire. Put me in a non-haggis room and I'll immediately begin to crave haggis. Similarly, prohibitive New Year's resolutions can backfire. Vows like "I will stop...
...prevent this sort of unintended backlash, try to keep your proscriptive pledges focused on specific aspects of relationships. Here are two such resolutions I'm considering: "Stop turning down dinner invitations from my brother and sister-in-law with the transparent excuse that they're rerunning my favorite episode of Walker, Texas Ranger that night" and "stop silently exulting or actually chortling when another parent tells me that his daughter had enormous difficulty with a homework assignment that my daughter found ridiculously easy...
...Aixa M. Pascual...