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...adult world often feel rebuffed. "I don't get the feeling that Britain is the most child-friendly culture," says Emily Benn, who was selected to contest a seat in Britain's House of Commons three weeks before her 18th birthday. "When you go to France they're nicer to you in restaurants, on the streets and on transport. When I go around Britain on the railways, I get treated like rubbish by guards and officials...
...that the Crimson did not have to make any alterations to its usual preparations for the weekend.“I’m happy for our players that they can stay in their normal routine,” Stone said. “It’s always nicer when you can stay at home and not have to take the act on the road, for sure.”Harvard is undefeated at home this season, and the team carries an understandable swagger when playing at Bright.After the game, Kessler lauded the sensation of having...
...After hours, the couple loves to entertain, holding dinner parties for colleagues in their Cambridge home. “There’s nothing nicer than friends around a table, sitting in the glow of candles, their cheeks turning ruddy after several glasses of wine, their temperaments turning mellow after a good duck…” muses Homi...
...research. John Gottman, a renowned couples therapist who was then at the University of Washington, and Robert Levenson, a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, led a team that evaluated 40 same-sex couples and 40 straight married couples. The psychologists concluded that gays and lesbians are nicer than straight people during arguments with partners: they are significantly less belligerent, less domineering and less fearful. Gays and lesbians also use humor more often when arguing (and lesbians use even more humor than gays, which I hereby dub "the Ellen DeGeneres effect"). The authors concluded that "heterosexual relationships...
...Rudd said his first move as PM would be to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. But with Australia's emissions targets already met, ratification is largely a matter of image - Aussies for a nicer, cleaner world. New leaders' first trips abroad are always scrutinized for significance. Rudd's will be to Bali Dec. 3, to attend preliminary U.N. talks on what will follow Kyoto. He said the visit "would be a way of indicating that we intend to be globally diplomatically active" on climate change. "We are sure that his attendance will have a symbolic meaning...