Word: excellence
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...them: “Please don’t vote!!!” Punctuation aside, Monti said that the mistake “will not in any way” affect the process of tallying the votes. For the past five Class Marshal elections, the HAA has used Microsoft Excel to compare the ID numbers of those who have voted to those in the senior class to ensure there are no duplicate votes. This process can also be used to catch votes by people not in the voting class and should eliminate any votes by the class...
...Some kathoeys say they don't need specially designated bathrooms, arguing they should be able to use either male or female toilets. Others would rather have educational funds go to combating the stereotype that the only jobs kathoeys can expect to excel in are in the beauty or entertainment - read sex - industries. Certainly, career prejudice is a lingering problem: one Thai teachers' college, for instance, refuses to enroll kathoeys. Nevertheless, Thailand is a far more open-minded place than even the United States. And the tolerance isn't just a liberal, urban phenomenon. Kathoey beauty pageants are popular in Thai...
...future Palestinian state. Livni has also earned the admiration of European colleagues, who cite her lawyerly logic and pragmatism. And she has made a close friend of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whom she calls at least twice a week. "Tzipi's strength to endure, indeed to excel, in what were difficult, often heartbreaking, conditions was a testament to her character," Rice wrote in a tribute last year when Livni was named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People...
...phones. In his early 20s he worked as a carpenter - Scheving proudly boasts that he built his own house "from scratch" - and taught fitness in his spare time. Then, when he was 25, Scheving made a life-changing bet with a friend: they gave each other three years to excel in a sport they'd never tried before. "I chose snooker for him, and he picked aerobic gymnastics for me," he says...
...economic ruin. Today, the whole idea that Japan was supposed to shove the U.S. economy into oblivion seems quite silly. What most Americans didn't understand is that U.S. economic success didn't depend on making TV sets; it was based on the technological innovation at which Americans excel. Beginning in the early 1990s, the U.S. experienced one of its most sustained economic booms ever in part due to American superiority in the information technology at the heart of the New Economy. Meanwhile Japan's ascent faltered as U.S. carmakers narrowed the quality gap, and other nations, such as South...