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I can be serious for an hour; then I have to go lie down. Alexandra Petri

Lie Down Hour Go Then Serious

Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession. Alexandra Petri

Risks Run Journalists Profession Many

Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves. Alexandra Petri

Words Shine Attention Make Call Dull Sentences Themselves Many Bright

It's easier to find the joke in something when you think, 'This - this is ridiculous.' Alexandra Petri

You Joke Think Easier Find Something Ridiculous

Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry. Alexandra Petri

Comedy Thought Fall President Back Everyone Reliable John John Kerry Could No-One Although Wants Explicitly Stand-Up Comedy Who Career Kerry

Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible. Alexandra Petri

Knowledge Thought Thanks Other Crippling Possible Significant See Vital Postmodernism Trivia More Tend Facts No-One Raw Raw Material Sophisticated Makes Material Intellectually Than Any Meaningless Disregard

Obama isn't funny. Alexandra Petri

Funny Obama

Harvard prides itself on its diversity - economic, racial, social, geographical - but it remains intellectually segregated. It's not what conservative commentators seem to imagine - a bastion of liberal professors force-feeding radical opinions to a naive student body. Alexandra Petri

By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs. Alexandra Petri

Disagree Lose Our Those Ourselves Ability Opinions Beliefs Whose Defend

Hi, my name is Alexandra, and I'm a netaholic. Alexandra Petri

Hi Name

At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex. Alexandra Petri

Better Job Sense Recipe Complex Respond Harvard Better Job Tend Could Students Celebrities Celebrity Where Themselves Vague

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long. Alexandra Petri

History Hero Heroes Long Entirely No-One Contains Very

Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why. Alexandra Robbins

World Better School Will Pay Changes Tell Sometime Adult Students No-One Off Gets Graduation Being Different After After-School Being Different Explains Them World Changes Why

A Health Affairs study comparing patient-satisfaction scores with HCAHPS surveys of almost 100,000 nurses showed that a better nurse work environment was associated with higher scores on every patient-satisfaction survey question. Alexandra Robbins

Work Health Better Every Nurse Nurses Higher Environment Almost Study Affairs Question Scores Survey Surveys Work Environment Comparing Associated

There are three elements to perceived popularity. A student has to be visible, recognizable and influential. Alexandra Robbins

Three Visible Recognizable Perceived Student Influential Popularity Elements

I would hate to be in high school now. Psychologists talk about the 'imaginary audience' that teens seem to feel they have around them and that makes them think they have to keep up their image all the time. Now with Facebook and MySpace and 24/7 online access, that imaginary audience has become real. Alexandra Robbins

Time Facebook Hate School Become Think Teens High Would High School About Seem Online Myspace Feel Talk Around Makes Access Audience Real Up Psychologists Them Keep Now Image Imaginary

You should wear what you want to wear and not worry about trying to paint yourself in a certain image because that self-awareness is what's going to help you become a more independent and more interesting and healthier adult. Alexandra Robbins

When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare. Alexandra Robbins

Health Accountability Patient Would Administrators Percent Hospitals Likely Healthcare Scores Survey Improve Department Human Decided Transparency Figured Base Satisfaction Reimbursement Services Medicare

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. Alistair Cooke

Factory Mythology Since Most Greeks Grew Hollywood Popular Flourishing

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. Alistair Cooke

People Listening Back Like Lean America Forward Radio Britain

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