Monday, February 25, 2013

What do woman want?

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Back in the 1930’s, Freud said that “the great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite ...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Wanting to win

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We hear over and over again that cooperation and teamwork are the keys to 21st century success. Yet we live in a very competitive age. We ...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Citizenville

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Thirty-two years ago, Ronald Reagan, in his first Inaugural, said that government was not the solution, but the problem. Since then, we hav...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Why we are really divided by politics and religion

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While it certainly may seem as if our social, political and moral debates are a kind of tower of babel, or more like a kind of moral food fi...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Saturday Night Widows

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Few experiences in life are more personal than grief. There is simply no formula. We’re all told about the stages of grief, but research no...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Raising Global IQ

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A new school recently opened in New York called Avenues World School. Its curriculum is focused on creating students who are citizens of the...
Friday, February 15, 2013

One World

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Kishore Mahbubani is a writer, professor, and a former Singaporean diplomat who served twice as ambassador to the UN. In his new book The ...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Glide

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Back in the 60's protest was de rigueur. The anti-war movement and the struggle for civil rights were front and center in the nation...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Ike's Bluff

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Donald Rumsfeld had an interesting philosophy. He often said that sometimes the solution to a small intractable problem, was to create a mu...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

George Saunders - "The Tenth of December"

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We live in the world usually between the mundane and the absurd. Except that sometimes, it's hard to tell which is which. George Sau...
Friday, February 8, 2013

The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks

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This past Monday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks. She would become one of the most well know women of the twentieth...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

FOB

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Amidst all the political talk about immigration, we forget the most important part. That throughout  history, immigration has been the way t...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The Cloud

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No matter how much we love our technology, it would be foolish to think that it has only positive effects on us. The impact on our lives has...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

You can go home again..

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Today there are conflicting forces at play in our nation. On the one hand it appears that progressivism is on the rise. That the walls of pr...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Our Mind-boggling Universe

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We humans have this seemingly innate desire to measure everything. Yet what are we really observing, what are we measuring? Since we can o...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Myth of the Perfect Girl

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Twenty years ago we were engaged in a great national effort to make sure that girls were not left behind. From the travails of Ophelia to t...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

A Kiss before you Go

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Few things are more personal than how we grieve. While society is often quick to judge and volumes have been written about the process, no ...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Rage is Back

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New York in the late ‘70s; it was a time that is often derided, yet it was a time of great artistic expression, of raw energy and of diversi...