Word: accomplishing
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...other students were disappointed. "Since this is the first time we're having this, it's difficult to accomplish anything," said David S. Lee, a second year student at the Boston University School of Medicine. "They're reiterating a lot of the issues we already know, so it's not effective in getting grassroots support...
Harvard's first years, whether they know it or not, have been well served by Richard Marius. He took a program that was in shambles and built it into a place to which writing teachers apply by the hundreds, work hard, and accomplish great things. Jeff Bradley
Marius and the administrators he hired havedone much to accomplish those goals. Sue A.Lonoff, who was an Expos preceptor for eight yearsand is now a lecturer offering an Expos courseevery spring, says Marius' chief accomplishmenthas been the establishment of official standards."When I came in, there really were no criteria forevaluating teachers," says Lonoff. "There was verylittle way to decide who was to stay and who wasto...
...astonishing, and he long ago articulated his formula for success: "You do your homework, you chart clear goals, you make sure all the parts mesh, and then, even though you have to bend some to get stuff passed, you stick by the key pieces of your plan till you accomplish your goals." But consistency and constancy, the critical prerequisites to the successful pursuit of any policy, are missing abroad. Why? It may be that Clinton's foreign and defense policy team is second-rate, judging from its performance in Somalia. Or it may be that a President whose interest flags...
...Clinton Administration has tried to do good by helping Boris Yeltsin. But by supporting him so unreservedly, the U.S. risks collaborating in the creation of a democratic authoritarianism. It is impossible to accomplish moral and political fine-tuning amid turmoil. American policy toward Haiti, a place almost as poignantly miserable as Somalia, is also smudged by uncertainty just at the moment when the Administration is sending military trainers and engineers to join a U.N. force...