Word: assessment
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When Harvard Men's Hockey Coach Clark Hodder '25 sat down to assess the state of his struggling team on March 5, 1941, there wasn't a whole lot he could do. Back in those days, there was no NCAA tournament, no ECAC and no Beanpot. An Ivy League title was out of the question since Harvard, 2-8-1 at the time, would play only one more game before the season expired...
JACQUES PEPIN has more than enough credentials to assess the role of Ray Kroc and McDonald's. But he turned out to be a better choice than we initially thought. Not only is Pepin a great chef, food writer and TV host on PBS (Jacques Pepin's Kitchen: Cooking with Claudine), but early in his career he learned about American cuisine by working for Howard Johnson's, thus becoming a veteran of the fast-food wars...
That inability to critically assess their material hurts this compilation. Youth, one might think, would work well here, imparting pubescent angst to these most angst-ridden of tunes. Unfortunately, most of the bands featured have too much respect for the songs they cover, playing them in much the same style with only minor changes of tempo or instrumentation. This forces one inevitably to compare the originals--and the comparison often comes up short. The Gadjits' take on the Simple Minds classic "Don't You (Forget About Me)," for example, preserves the source's arrangement down to the deep voices...
...interview with The Crimson earlier thismonth, Lewis said that he would take thisopportunity to re-assess the College'sadministrative structure...
...daughters, ages 7 and 10, and he notes that "some children thrive on having a lot to do." He and his wife Patricia McEnery, a former social worker, aren't strict about how the girls spend every minute of the day. "The trick," says McEnery, "is to assess what your kids really need and try to find a balance...