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Your article "Africa, Business Destination" was a welcome recognition of the importance of trade and business development as tools for combating poverty [March 23]. But I have to correct a suggestion in the piece that Bono and Bob Geldof seek to represent Africans in their work as activists. They work in partnership with leading Africans but never suggest they represent Africans. Bono and Geldof represent themselves and others who want to see the world's richest governments keep the commitments they have made to Africa. These two have also argued that trade and investment will be more important than...
Sporting geniuses such as Tiger Woods have an intuitive, almost artistic feel for golf; Harrington belongs to a breed of amateur scientists who use an agonizing process of trial and error to master their craft. "Padraig is the hardest worker I've ever coached, and the most curious," says Bob Torrance, Harrington's 77-year-old swing guru. "[Former great Ben] Hogan was similar, both struggled early in their career. Both learned long and hard, and both became great...
Harrington has learned to balance his obsessive focus on technical details with a less tangible discipline - sports psychology. Renowned golf psychologist Bob Rotella teaches Harrington how not to think, encouraging him to play "unconscious, out-of-his-mind golf." Such clarity is muddled by technical tinkering on the practice tee, so Rotella places a limit on practice during big tournaments. It's an abstention Harrington struggles to uphold. "I'm getting better but if I'm let loose I'll just practice all day," he says...
...Bob Shorb, Skidmore College's fast-talking director of student aid and family finance, did more reading than usual this year. And not just because the 4,000 financial-aid applications that landed on his desk made up a record 62% of the applicant pool. Shorb, who has worked in financial aid for 30 years and is halfway through putting his three daughters through college, had also never seen so many personal appeals folded into the files. Setting aside his computer algorithms and thick-buttoned relic of a calculator, he absorbed every typewritten page. One family expected a 50% income...
After the 2008 turnover, Tester was only 84th in seniority, so he and his staff spent two months following hallway gossip about which offices would be getting scooped up. Back in January, the dream was that they'd get Joe Biden's office, but Judd Gregg took that, and Bob Casey took Gregg's. When Tester's draft day finally came, he looked at the dozen or so offices remaining, eventually deciding, after three trips, on Mary Landrieu...