For those who want a sample of that sympathy, another Orman opus, The Courage to Be Rich, should be in bookstores in March.

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Another unpopular group gets some sympathy in this article in the Academy of Management Perspectives.

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After Giuliani left office, Lhota landed in the private sector, working at Cablevision and Madison Square Garden (and battling lymphoma, another unfortunate event that happens to add sympathy to his personal brand).

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Mason cites a number of examples of activists at one protest expressing sympathy for or solidarity with the causes of another protest, and chronicles the stories of those few activists who move from place to place and cause to cause.

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Helped by his soft approach and by a swing in Greece's public mood from hostility to sympathy after two terrible earthquakes in Turkey (and another in Greece), the two countries, so long riven by enmity, are for the moment getting on much better than usual.

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But sympathy is one thing, having a weak ally is another.

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In his 1759 book the "Theory of the Moral Sentiments, " philosopher Adam Smith argued that empathy (he called it sympathy) was motivated by the capacity to imagine being another person.

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And he can expect a strong sympathy vote, both from the death of his brother and perhaps from another looming bereavement: his mother is critically ill.

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Third, on November 14th, Chandrababu Naidu, the chief minister in another state, Andhra Pradesh, called for an early election, partly to pick up the sympathy vote after he narrowly escaped a terrorist assassination attempt last month.

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