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...total dedication to excellence in everything she does." It was Laura's first assignment that involved working with other women, and it taught her something about herself. "I had got used to dealing with men all the time, and it made me very direct and even abrupt," she admits. "I found that I can be just as effective without having to change how I truly...
Around the White House, an abrupt change in the President's public schedule is known as an "audible," and generally, it's just about the last thing anyone wants to suggest to a boss so allergic to disruption that he makes people turn off their cell phones when he is in the room. But last week, when USA Today broke a story that the government has been secretly keeping track of the phone calls that tens of millions of ordinary Americans are making each day, it was George W. Bush who proposed an impromptu appearance before the television cameras...
...Kirshner, the Clowes professor of science, said that several projects, including a renovation of the Quincy Grille’s ventilation system, will go on despite the reduction in funds.The impact of campus expansion on the faculty has been more pronounced.Most notably, Kirby last summer initiated an abrupt slowdown of faculty hiring after three years of rapid growth.Several department chairs said recently that they have yet to hear from the dean about whether they will be authorized to carry out their requested searches for new faculty next year.Robert J. Sampson, the Ford professor of the social sciences, said the situation...
Baseball season turned into awards season for Harvard yesterday. The Crimson, whose spring came to an abrupt end with a two-game Ivy League Championship sweep by Princeton on Saturday, had five players selected to the All-Ivy First Team—four more than the Tigers and one more than any other team in the league. The eight Ivy League coaches who voted on the awards also named Harvard sophomore Shawn Haviland Ivy League Pitcher of the Year. Freshman Adam Cole, No. 2 in the Crimson rotation this year behind Haviland, was honored as one of the league?...
...create a sense of continuity between two books with very different tones—the first is jubilantly frenzied, the second whimsically melancholy—which are themselves episodic tableaus rather that unified narratives. Drake has elected to uphold this disparity between the two acts, which leads to an abrupt transition which lacks some resolution. Ultimately, however, it enriches the production, because the loyalty to Carroll’s original intent makes for a stronger base from which to venture into creative elaboration. The play’s final two scenes manage to conclude both the acts that preceded them...