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...says about her work with Harvard fashion show Eleganza, in which she served as fashion director, creative director, and most recently, executive producer. “I like creating an opportunity for others to have fun.” Since her freshman year, Petrich has been a social-event dynamo. She started her freshman fall as chair of the First-Year Social Committee and “hosting awesome themed-parties in my room in Hurlbut,” she says. She’s moved on from organizing Costume Catwalks with the FYSC to a bigger project: the soon...
...even a dynamo like Ghosn, successfully run two carmakers? He could keep his hands full with Renault alone. Like other European carmakers, Renault is grappling with high labor costs, slim profit margins and surging competition on its home turf from Toyota. Yet Ghosn, characteristically, has set ambitious goals for Renault, aiming to add new models, lift profit margins to 6% in 2009, from 2.5% today, and sell an additional 800,000 cars a year. "Everybody knows what I mean by commitment," he says, "and I'm very serious about that...
...been fulfilled—Brian Cusworth has 18 games left to show the league, foreign teams, and himself just what he is capable of achieving on the court.No matter how well he plays, regardless of whether or not he finally becomes the game-changing dynamo that Crimson coach Frank Sullivan envisioned when he recruited the rangy seven-footer out of the John Burroughs School in St. Louis five years ago, Cusworth will not be in uniform when the Crimson men’s basketball team opens up the stretch drive of its Ivy League schedule at home against...
...their foundation and build from there—a loss slides a team down, a quality win bumps a team up. Therefore, a stinky squad that had the good fortune to be ranked in the preseason lingers in the Top 25 for far too long, while an unheralded dynamo is forced to wait weeks to crack the list.This inertia mainly plagues the national rankings, but many of the same problems attend to conference polls. In the Ivy League above all, where there is no possibility of qualifying for the playoffs, where the only relevant title is the Ancient Eight crown...
...Leadership matters. Confident in his own powers of judgment and persuasion, Roosevelt believed in "immediate and rigorous executive action" in times of crisis. And whether they agreed with him or not, Americans knew where this human dynamo stood on the great issues of his time. Driven by a fervent belief in the Declaration of Independence, he drew strength from his faith that all Americans "stand on the same footing," as human beings worthy of respect. And like all great leaders, he inspired those he led, turning his convictions into theirs...