Word: convert
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...that was lying on the ice. So all the dirty work was him—I just got the glory, which is unfair.”What the night’s victory masked, however, was the inability of the Harvard offense to convert on its scoring chances. The Crimson started on the right note, with senior winger Jon Pelle cleaning up a rebound at the left post just 3:25 into the game. But that was the only time a Harvard forward scored all night, despite the Crimson picking up three man-advantage opportunities and launching 35 shots overall.Though...
What the night’s victory masked, however, was the inability of the Harvard offense to convert on its scoring chances. The Crimson started on the right note, with junior winger Jon Pelle cleaning up a rebound at the left post just 3:25 into the game. But that was the only time a Harvard forward scored all night despite the Crimson picking up three man-advantage opportunities and launching 35 shots overall...
KNOW WHOM YOU ARE TALKING TO. Vasella divides organizations into those that genuinely want a dialogue with his drug company--he mentions the famine-relief group Oxfam--and those, like many animal-rights activists, that don't. "Don't try to convert the unconvertible," he counsels. Talk to the "decent people" who respect different points of view. From the other side, Charles Secrett, executive director of Friends of the Earth UK, concedes that some activists believe talking to corporations is a sellout and only violent revolution will change the world...
...with me, or my dog, as the case my be. “I’m sorry. Kasha is only ten and devoutly Jewish. She’s just curious. Please don’t take the trouble to come. She isn’t interested in being converted,” my mother said. She hadn’t lied to them. My dog is certainly ten and quite curious. As for being devoutly Jewish, Kasha’s name is Yiddish and she can down a corned beef sandwich the size of her head. And she wasn?...
Many of Stilgoe’s colleagues express their concern about the environment in a more conspicuous way: they drive Toyota Priuses, the hybrid-engine vehicles that get over 40 miles to the gallon. Computer scientist Margo I. Seltzer ’83, a recent Prius convert, says she started feeling guilty about her ’96 Toyota Corolla when she saw Al Gore ’69’s “An Inconvenient Truth” over the summer. Perhaps the campus’s most venerable Prius owner is former University President Derek...