Word: excelently
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...BOTH PLAYS, the actors aptly demonstrate their flexibility with character changes, but they excel most in hamming. Cannon, for example, tries too hard to aspire to the dramatic ideal of Macbeth but does well as the frustrated and displaced Landovsky. Kimberly Estes performs vigorously whether she is Mrs. Dogg or the nagging "Jewish mother" Gertrude in Hamlet or the cunning Lady Macbeth...
Highly motivated, the children of immigrants frequently feel guilty and disgraced when they do not excel at their studies. Le Giau expressed pride but Daughter Jennifer was ashamed when she came in second in a spelling contest. Son Nguyen, who plans to study engineering and then become a doctor, is still concerned that he has been infected by slack U.S. student habits. Reason: instead of straight A's, he pulled a few B's in his senior year in high school...
...Hinjew" form his friends. At home, his family celebrates Chanukah, Christmas, and Divali, the Hindu festival of lights. Because of this diverse ethnic background, Nadkarni feels distant from "the blue blood sense of Harvard," and he says this sense of not belonging may explain "why I've strived to excel and become part of a social circle...
...amiability. Replete with pageantry and sprinkled with humor, the meeting dominated television coverage throughout Canada and pushed almost all other news off the front pages. It also accomplished its purpose in giving Reagan and Mulroney an irresistible opportunity to engage in the kind of personal politicking at which both excel. (While the men negotiated, Nancy Reagan toured Quebec City with Mulroney's vivacious, Yugoslav-born wife Mila, visiting the Ursuline Convent and stopping at a downtown restaurant...
...Crimson continued to excel in the diving events, as senior Jennifer Goldberg won the one-meter and finished third in the three-meter event...