Archive for April 16th, 2007

Apr 16 2007

How Doctors Think

Published by The Kibbitzer under Trading, View from Bottom

How Drs think is written by Harvard hematologist Jerome Groopman.   Woodie likes to say that it takes 3 years to become a lawyer and 4 for a doctor, what makes one think he’s going to become trader over night?  Dr. Groopman learned that 80% of medical mistakes are the result of predictable mental traps, or cognitive errors that bedevil [...]

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Apr 16 2007

Andy Lau

Golfer was looking for some contemporary pieces to play and came across Brickman’s.  Apparently, he is an American composer and contemporary pianist, very popular in Asia.  There are some clips on YouTube showing he teamed up with Andy Lau, etc.  Geee, I don’t know Andy can sing in English very well.  My impression is that there [...]

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Apr 16 2007

Judy’s worry

Judy is from Shanghai working as a programmer for a publishing house here in New York.  The thing bothers her most is the prospect of her two son’s future if they could make it in the US, “kids, especially boys in China have the confidence that the American Chinese boys lacking..”  She sighted at the [...]

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Apr 16 2007

Kick down the ladder 过河拆桥

In closing her short article, Cox wrote, “Once, after I was on, he and his gang proceeded to discuss my “creamy” skin and compliment my nice pair of .. . “eyes”.  I later asked the producer to remind him that as far as I knew, my father was listening.  Now I’m going to ask my [...]

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Apr 16 2007

Backhand

Published by The Kibbitzer under Sports

Craig likes my backhand and told everyone that I have the best bh among students he ever coached.  Ok, I didn’t make this up, it caught on video, lol.  Yesterday after our lesson, Slowpoke took her make up lesson with him, and he praises her backhand too, so was Mark, who’s son AJ was taking [...]

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