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POPSHow to Haggle Tom Chiarella's adventure into the art of negotiating the un-negotiable, starting with the price of a hot dog on the streets of New York. With practice and expert advice, he finds there basically is no such thing as a firm price. "You're offering them less money," says, "without giving them anything in return." He holds a finger straight up in the air and wags it at me. "You always have something to offer. Loyalty. Future business. Increased volume. Whatever. You have to think about their needs. You have to create an offer that gives something rather than takes it away."
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POPSEdie Brickell & New Bohemians - Circle Another underrated band from the late 80s. My friends from high school would really like this. We spent countless hours listening to this album (until the cassette tape broke). And many more hours debating on how to correctly pronounce Edie Brickell's name.
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POPSIt's Not All About You Most people are too busy worrying about their own personal problems to notice yours. In a 2000 study, Gilovich and colleagues reported that students also badly overestimated how well their own gaffes and clever arguments were noticed by others in discussion groups. "The fact is that others do not notice us nearly as much as we think they do," Gilovich said. Contrary to every instinct, our nervousness, our sadness, even our lies are largely lost on most observers, he said.
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POPSDesaparecidos. The Vanished. Over 2000 people had vanished in the Philippines. From labor leaders to student activists to journalists. All evidence points to the military. Government agents doing their dirty work.
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POPSSubconscious Remembers Everything If we tap into our subcoscious and become "aware" of particular unhealthy behaviours and thoughts, for instance, we are able to "reframe" our thinking and personality and replace them with positive, productive thinking and behaviour.
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POPSMark Twain's "The War Prayer" In 1904, disgusted by the aftermath of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War, Mark Twain wrote a short anti-war prose poem called "The War Prayer." His family begged him not to publish it, his friends advised him to bury it, and his publisher rejected it, thinking it too inflammatory for the times. Twain agreed, but instructed that it be published after his death, saying famously: None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth. "The War Prayer" was eventually published after World War I, when its message was more in tune with the times. Now, Washington Monthly's publisher, Markos Kounalakis, who was affected by Twain's words when he covered the war in Yugoslavia in the early 90s, has made "The War Prayer" into a short video for release this Memorial Day weekend. It features stunning illustrations by Akis Dimitrakopoulos and is narrated by Peter Coyote, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Erik Bauersfeld. *
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