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...success creates positive momentum, and confidence builds, making it easier to succeed the next time. People who believe they are likely to win are willing to put in the extra effort at difficult moments to ensure that victory. They stay in the game no matter what. Mike Krzysewski, legendary coach of the Duke men’s basketball team, calls this the principle of “next play,” saying “Don’t take what you did in this play to the next play—positive or negative...
...Italians say, The plot, she thickens," he giggles. Nonetheless, Crawford, who followed Phantom by retreating to a Las Vegas showcase, re-stakes his dormant reputation as a brilliant character actor. Even in his fat suit, he has an easy command of the stage, preening and prancing with joy. Extra points for hitting a long high note in his showstopping A Gift for Living Well with a large, live rat crawling around his neck. As Marian, Maria Friedman is appropriately plucky and anguished. The other women are less memorable. As the title character, Angela Christian is saddled with an irritating, hard...
...electoral votes in the complicated U.S. system. (That's fewer than California but more than New York or Texas.) Those votes could be allocated according to population and political and economic influence. By my reckoning, Europe should get around 18 votes, Japan 7, and China 6, with an extra vote added every time China sees its economy grow by 10% or its athletes win an additional 10 gold medals at the Olympics. I tried out my idea on my father-in-law, a Nebraskan so conservative that he thinks driving on the left side of the road is subversive. Sure...
...says, look sharp and young. Browne, who wears a suit every day, whatever the weather or occasion, describes his typical client as "the guy who was wearing khakis and polo shirts the past couple years but who understands the quality of hand-made clothing and is willing to spend extra money to get it." (His suits usually start...
...future." The Kerry consultants, who actually believe this claptrap and have zero sense of political theater, sound like a bunch of low-budget Ginzu-knife salesmen when they represent their candidate on television: We're offering you a $4,000 college-tuition tax credit and--for no extra charge--a $1,000 reduction in your health-care costs! They also seem to believe this election isn't about the most important decision Bush has made: to go to war in Iraq. Kerry's adherence to that strategy--including the robotic repetition of the words strong and values--has made...