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...survivors in each field, however, discovered ways to compete. Almost all provide superior service. Their sales staffs know their products and customers well and stock what the locals want. They emphasize convenience and make things easy to find. Some choose specialties in which they can excel, whether it's children's books or saltwater fish. And many now employ more sophisticated pricing strategies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plucky Little Competitors | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

That said, Harvard rightly goes out of its way to choose students whom it knows will not waste the wonderful resources at their disposal here. Lewis himself is keen to stress the positive effects of competitiveness, which he says “drives excellence.” But excellence and the need to excel are far from the same thing. Grasping this fundamental dichotomy would rectify any number of problems at Harvard, ranging from rampant grade inflation to the stagnant social scene...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, | Title: Harvard Degree, Four Years Early | 10/4/2002 | See Source »

...quest for excellence and the compulsive need to excel are entirely different. Perhaps the ability of the less compulsively driven students to understand this is why the old adage holds true: After a few years here, regardless of the number of mornings spent postering, afternoons spent harmonising or evenings spent reviewing, we’ll all be Harvard graduates. And worthy ones at that...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, | Title: Harvard Degree, Four Years Early | 10/4/2002 | See Source »

...critics. A delicate custard, with telltale black traces of vanilla bean, emerges after one cracks the hard, caramelized surface and is served with sweet, swollen blueberries. The dish is top-notch—matching up with the best in Paris, let alone Boston—and would further excel when paired with one of the selection of ports that Grafton offers...

Author: By Anthony S. A. freinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Success On the Street | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...Khokha, a knowledge-hungry she-monster on Alam Simsim, Egypt WHAT Coaxing girls to go to school and excel there MIGHT SAY Cleopatra spoke nine languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Positively Sesame Street | 9/22/2002 | See Source »

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