Word: approaches
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...perhaps to an unrealistic level-he has also aroused distrust and anger in Israel and among many of its fervent supporters in the U.S. The significance of the issue reaches beyond domestic politics and even beyond the Middle East itself, for it illustrates the weaknesses of Carter's approach to world affairs generally: too public and too often contradictory...
...tight contracts, the New York Mets made popular player Joe Torre their manager and immediately got red hot, winning seven of nine games. Can they repeat their Cinderella performance of 1969 and become world champs? Unlikely. But Torre, 36, who practices self-hypnosis "to eliminate the negative in my approach to life," has his team thinking positive and feeling loved. "The key to the game is being relaxed," he says. Coach Willie Mays has a simple explanation for Torre's instant success: "He treats his players like men, not schoolboys...
...humanize the place by making it clear that people other than Roosevelts and Cabots go to the school, to make the apprehensive athlete realize he can survive in Cambridge. Yet the Harvard myth, the Crimson tradition that is supposed to "sell itself," runs counter to such a self-effacing approach...
...possible misconceptions about Harvard life may also explain why Harvard enjoys more recruiting success in some sports than others. Some sports, coaches note, need less of a hardsell than others, and therefore Harvard is able to get by with its low-key approach. Kevin Mackey, basketball coach at Don Bosco Technical High School in Boston, says "suburban sports" such as football and tennis are more likely to attract students who are interested in the long-term benefits of an Ivy League education. Other athletes need to be sold harder, he says: "Basketball, for instance, with few exceptions, is a game...
Most of the women on the Harvard women's studies committee think a Harvard program needs departmental status to give it political clout. But spokesmen for the UMass, Penn, and Barnard programs say they are pleased with their non-departmental rank, because it allows an interdisciplinary approach, and allows them to pressure other departments. Parlee does say that she would prefer to see a regular department, but the Barnard committee opted for a program as the most easy route...