Word: connection
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Though students and OCS counselors try to collaborate to connect students with their desired careers, the counselors say their mission is not to place students in specific jobs, but to teach them lasting career-finding skills. With this goal in mind, they say that OCS cannot replace student initiative in the process...
Explaining the importance of this two-pronged method, Gawande says it’s important “to actually connect in a human way with the people around you, and to know the people you work with, or who come to you for care...
...early 1990s, Maxwell was introduced to classical and jazz composer Ornette Coleman, with whom she felt she could connect musically...
...wanted to find a composer I could connect with about form,” Maxwell says. “Balanchine found Stravinsky, I found Coleman.” She notes that her favorite piece, “Trinity,” was composed for two dancers and a violinist playing Coleman’s music...
...Chang and Halliday also connect a few dots. While 38 million Chinese were starving to death during 1958-61, much of the grain they produced was being shipped to the Soviet Union, where it accounted for two-thirds of all food imports. It was a weapons-technology-for-food program, a demonic bargain to make China a military superpower even at the cost of its own citizens' lives. "Half of China may well have to die," Mao said of this deal to his inner circle in 1958, according to Party documents. China's acquisition of the atom bomb, the authors...