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...they actually feel worse, not better. If you try to tell your dim friend that he has the potential of an Einstein, he won't think he's any smarter; he will probably just disbelieve your contradictory theory, hew more closely to his own self-assessment and, in the end, feel even dumber. In one fascinating 1990s experiment demonstrating this effect - called cognitive dissonance in official terms - a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write hard-hearted essays opposing funding for the disabled. When these participants were later told they were compassionate, they felt even worse...
...benefit of her experiences when those experiences are relevant and helpful to understanding the facts of a particular case? This factual assessment does not mean that she will fail to uphold the rule of law or has a race-driven agenda or believes in ethnic superiority. In the end (and, perhaps, thankfully), a Supreme Court Justice does not rule alone; nine justices participate in the decision-making process. As evidenced in the Court’s June 29 narrowly decided (5 to 4) case in Ricci v. DeStefano, we can glance at the particular wisdom of the justices from their...
...into a two-story wooden house with a bright orange garage door. The house is modern with two octagonal windows (Blanche says the carpenter who built the place was "some hippie" who put in all the windows). They have two cottages - both also with bright orange doors - at the end of the driveway. One is a type of sauna with a wood-burning stove. The other is a smoke shack for fish. Their catch of the day is hanging from a clothing line strung from the shack to a tree. The driveway is littered with boots, gray-and-red-tipped...
...After huddling with Zelaya, Clinton announced a new plan that reaches back to an old one: Costa Rican President Oscar Arias - who during his first presidency won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for helping end Central America's rash of bloody civil wars - will now mediate the Honduran standoff. Clinton, who said both Zelaya and provisional Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti had agreed to Arias' involvement, called on "all parties to refrain from acts of violence" - on Sunday a teenaged Zelaya backer was shot dead by soldiers - "and to seek a peaceful, constitutional and lasting solution." Zelaya and Micheletti say they...
...continuing the downward spiral it began after coming within half a percentage of winning the presidency in 2006.) The PRI's quasi-coalition with Mexico's Green Party, which grabbed 22 seats, gives it a tacit congressional majority that promises to "paralyze" Calderon's presidency if not "mark the end of his term," says syndicated political columnist Martha Anaya. A political hobbling of Calderon could hamper Washington's efforts to help the Mexican administration tackle an economic downturn and relentless drug violence, which have raised fears about the stability of one of the U.S.'s most important trading partners...