Word: excellance
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...families with little education or money], but on the other, evaluators can interpret a teacher's comment of "hardworking and motivated" to mean "the student isn't too smart." As a public high school teacher, I admire a student who has "overcome" a less than genius-level IQ to excel through consistent, honest effort and determination. Those students have proved themselves capable of the self-discipline and drive needed to succeed in college. ELLEN JANIS Chino Hills, Calif...
...admitted, could be forgiven and swept under the rug as "youthful indiscretions" irrelevant to one's presidential functions--that in the case of Clinton, the extramarital could be considered merely extracurricular. Others, many of whom now find themselves uncomfortably defending Texas Gov. George W. Bush, demanded that the president excel all his countrymen in virtue, a requirement that Jimmy Carter might pass but that John F. Kennedy '40 would surely fail...
...line" continued to excel, Harvard punished Lafayette both mentally and physically. The offense rolled off scoring drives of 59, 80 and 51 yards, respectively. At that point, the game was over...
...genius. Since he took only three months to write the source code, Fanning says he didn't have time to make it more complicated. He had to learn Windows programming in addition to Unix server code, which he had taught himself. It is exceedingly rare for one programmer to excel at client and server applications, but Fanning had no choice. "I had to focus on functionality, to keep it real simple," he says in his gravelly monotone. "With a few more months, I might have added a lot of stuff that would have screwed...
...operate Harvard University. Because of women's historically limited opportunities and academic institutions' widespread resistance to women breaking through their ranks, not many females will be eligible for the presidential position. But there certainly are women who have defied the institutions that had previously denied them the opportunity to excel in academic administration, and those laudable women should be the top nominees...