We often marvel at the handful of students who get top ACT scores and land scholarships at Ivy League universities. And with good cause, for it seems the number of geniuses these days are few and far between. But could we have a lot more “geniuses” in this country than we realize? That seems to
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Every now and then you’ll meet a person who throws you for a loop. You might think they’re insane, maybe sociopathic or simply a narcissist – maybe a combination of all three? Sometimes it can be hard to tell when you’re dealing with one of these predators of the social world. They’re nothing like the
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It’s understandable that some people are impatient, even disgusted, with all the fuss about which public bathrooms transgendered people get to use. Such feelings arise in part from the natural assumption that it shouldn’t be anybody’s business what people look like in the privacy of the stall. At least as understandable, however, is the fear
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As someone who slides into the backend of the Gen-X generation, my view of the Rev. Jesse Jackson has always been basically the same. My charitable view of Jackson had been that he is a gifted speaker with a great deal of media savvy; that he cares deeply for people, but sometimes offers dubious solutions
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Edward Bernays is often referred to as the “father of public relations” and was one of the great proponents of propaganda in the 20th century. According to his biography, “During World War I, he was an integral part – along with Walter Lippmann – of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda machine
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Ed Rensi, the former president of McDonald’s USA, wrote an article that appeared in Forbes recently in which he argued that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour could cost about a million jobs in limited service restaurants. Rensi, who worked at McDonald’s for three decades before he became Chief Executive Officer,
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