Word: excel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...African-American students registered as first-years here on Monday-a record high for Harvard. Anyone who suggests that some or all of these students are underqualified is implicitly arguing that there are not 143 African Americans in the high school class of 1993 with the academic qualifications to excel at Harvard (and the desire to attend). If this claim is not racist, it comes damn close...
...closest advisers admit privately that, even with the new troika in place, the White House still needs a bad cop to impose more discipline on independent-minded party regulars and also on the President. But Clinton is learning. And school is one area in which he knows how to excel...
...matches kind of got in the way this year," Doyle says. "These were smart, driven, understanding people who knew what it takes to excel. It was most challenging to have the surplus of talent we had and to try and keep everybody focused...
...literature, and the professor got into the annoying habit of giving me C's and D's on my papers. Finally, on the eighth and final essay of the year, I got an A-. I felt--rightly--that I had acquired a new skill, that I had learned to excel in an area in which I had been close to failure. Exulting this experience, I chose to study literature. Of course, my instructor could have given me A's all along, thus depriving me of this feeling of genuine accomplishment, a sentiment many Harvard undergraduates will never know...
...average, later than in any other country except Sweden. The mystery is why they wed at all. The young men who want to enjoy barbecues with their families are heavily outnumbered by the Fuyuhikos, named after a character in a TV drama who was raised by his mother to excel at school and work but never to do anything else for himself and who expects his wife to pamper him the same way. Young women are putting off marrying the Fuyuhikos as long as they can. Older women who married Fuyuhiko types decades ago sometimes express their resentment...