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...year-old bridesmaid next summer. Twice. And not for an older sister, thrice divorced aunt, or former babysitter (the usual suspects), but instead, for two fellow Harvard gal pals. One graduated with the class of 2005, the other plans to walk with me in ’07. Your initial reaction, of course, is disbelief and despair: if the national divorce rate is pushing 50 percent, what are the chances a young couple could actually make marriage last in a society that entertains itself by watching “Desperate Housewives” and the Home Shopping Network. Don?...
...Turnbull said that clots exist under the current law and that the bill only eliminates vital guarantees for employees. Currently, companies with weaker employees cannot be charged more than twice the premiums of those with healthier ones...
Lightning struck twice. A few days later I watched Cruise and Matt Lauer, both steely and focused, debate antidepressants—or psychotropic drugs, if you listen to Cruise—on The Today Show. Cruise insisted that Lauer didn’t know the history of psychiatry, but that he did. Lauer said that antidepressants had helped some of his friends. Cruise accused Lauer of being “glib.” The viewing public chalked Cruise’s antics up to his infatuation with Scientology. I agreed, congratulating myself on my educated rationality...
Such anecdotes abound. As the president of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), Jimmy faces a crowd of more than 100 twice a week. He organizes, coordinates, plans concerts and competitions, and addresses the concerns of individual members. He seems never to lose his ground...
...used to be pretty shy growing up and never really considered myself someone who could easily get up in front of over 100 people and say what was on my mind. Now I do that twice a week, no sweat,” Jimmy says. The communication skills that he developed during his year off have also come in handy at HRO. “Not that I’m imposing Scientology on anyone there, but what I use as my tools for running the orchestra is very much based on what I’ve learned from Scientology...