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There's nothing funny about mind games in the workplace, say the authors of this sober-minded guide to understanding underhanded office maneuvers. Such games include "the boss said" (invoking the name of a rainmaker, sometimes falsely, to get your way), stealing credit and--that time-tested misdeed--scurrilous gossiping. Simply waking up to games people play and rejecting them is a big part of the battle for executives, say the authors. But don't expect to zap all games: that's "akin to trying to stop employees from daydreaming...
...developers and big-name hotels are trying to avoid chopping the prices of newly built units. They're offering sweeteners such as free spa memberships and extra hotel-reward points. But it's getting tougher for them to compete with the growing number of heavily discounted resale units...
...Application again. But in the basement of the Harvard College Office of Admissions, a framed four-by-two foot copy of the dreaded application hangs on the wall.The enormous application—an actual submission from a hopeful applicant—is complete with the student’s name, high school, and address, with rows of “Harvard” written across the header, with a miniscule “Yale” in the middle.“The biggest kick was that he sent it with a giant paper clip,” says...
...central character is Richard Feynman (Jesse W. Barron ’09), a physicist who played a supporting role in the Manhattan Project. Lured to the Nevada desert by Oppenheimer, Feynman divides his time between his work and his wife, who is dying of tuberculosis. Her real name was Arline Greenbaum, but here it’s Eurydice, and Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08 is appropriately enigmatic and cipher-like in the semi-mythological role...
...Despite Thiébault's modesty, his name is proudly touted on chalkboard menus at gastronomic bistros like Les Fines Gueules, www.lesfinesgueules.fr, where owner Arnaud Bradol serves up creations such as beetroot raviole of seasoned crab splashed with truffle oil. Meanwhile, at Racines wine bar, www.morethanorganic.com, owner Pierre Jancou is among the few privileged chefs to get their produce from the garden of none other than Passard, www.alain-passard.com, who created the 10-acre (4 hectare) Fillé-sur-Sarthe plot in 2002 to realize his ambitions for l'Arpège, and grow the types of extraordinary vegetables that today...