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...know someone. Maybe that’s an indictment of my social circle, but if the variety of people in the café is any indication, I am not alone in feeling its aura of sociability. Rather than gains in work, café dwellers—including those who purport to be “working”—have gained the valuable addition of extra social time, while not feeling the guilt of the “Harvard” student who chastises himself for not living in the library...
Knight is one of dozens of so-called channelers who purport to be mediums for "spirit guides" long dead and buried, or those from "different dimensions." Most of these channelers are clustered in the Pacific Northwest. The more established ones, like Knight and California-based Jack Pursel, who channels a rather likable spirit named Lazaris, have built up multi-million-dollar businesses to market themselves and their wisdom through weekend seminars and audio- and videocassettes. On a lesser scale, such channelers as Hossca Harrison ("Jonah") in Boulder, or Paul Tuttle ("Raj") in Bellingham, Wash., make a comfortable living through private...
Then again, the book—removed from its press release—doesn’t purport to be a comprehensive review of the more recent years of Clinton’s career. Instead, it plays on that old historical maxim that to understand the past is to comprehend the future...
...Goldenberg campaigners, their supporters chant “we’re not talking about the UC, we’re talking about real change.” Most infamously thus far, the Tim R. Hwang ’08 and Alexander S. Wong ’08 ticket purport the slogan “Kill the UC, Kill them Dead” in a “radical reformist” vein, Hwang says. The other notables are Gillis-Wimberley’s “Join the Fight” and Anene-de Beausett?...
...week's worth of horsing around at the sumptuous Home Ranch is the latest outdoor pursuit in management training. In today's corporate-training world, there are the old standbys like rock climbing, rope mazes and Dale Carnegie. But a wide variety of other programs have developed that purport to impart management wisdom: martial arts, golf (don't ask), rhythmic drumming (ditto), paintball and treasure hunts among them. Some trainers use improvisational comedy to supposedly unleash the inner Jay Leno in trainees, while other consultants bring along wild animals to scare off any doubts about promoting Smithers...