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...Saturday when she took a puck on the left side of the offensive zone and single-handedly turned it into the 11th Crimson goal. First, she knocked the puck off the boards and around an RPI defender. Then she collected the puck once again and with some fancy stick handling, beating two more Engineers’ defenders. Finally, she capped it off by throwing one fake and burying the puck behind RPI goalie Emily Ford. Similarly, against Union, Vaillancourt took a pass from Chu, sped by the entire defense, and then wrested the puck to top shelf on the right...
...first half. Brown’s initial goal was set up by junior back Devon Shapiro, who fired a shot on Dartmouth goalie Jordan Sedlacek off a corner pass. Shapiro’s blast was knocked away before it could reach the net, but the ball found the stick of Brown, who fired it high and hard past Sedlacek. Ten minutes later, Brown executed an even more impressive tally. Senior back Audrey Ziomek carried the ball down the left side past several Dartmouth defenders, and then passed it to the top of the circle. Brown was able to collect...
Those are questions brothers Chip and Dan Heath parse in their upcoming book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. The exploration follows from a class Chip, 43, a professor of organizational behavior, teaches at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He comes to the topic by way of research into urban legends and conspiracy theories--ideas that are wrong but so annoyingly sticky they just won't go away. Dan, 33, draws his interest from working as an education consultant and trying to figure out what makes some teachers so effective...
There are skeptics who still say nice can be a negative. Debra Condren, a psychologist and business coach, is one. "Sometimes women are too nice and let other people in the workplace steal their credit. They don't know how to stick up [for themselves]." In her new book, Am?BITCH?ous (Morgan Road), out in December, she views the bitch label as a component of admirable ambition. Her definition of ambitchous: a woman who "makes more money, has more power, gets the recognition she deserves, and has the determination to go after her dreams with ... integrity...
...that have made all the difference. A cabdriver who Apted was worried might succumb to criminality has become a mini real estate mogul in Spain, a man who was for some years homeless is now a minor government official, a librarian who works with the severely handicapped continues to stick to her idealistic guns, while a schoolteacher who worked extensively in the Third World is back at the traditional public school he once attended in England (and he's still playing cricket...