Word: excellent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bottom line is that Harvard is about achievement, about excellence. This College only admits individuals who have demonstrated exceptional abilities to achieve and excel. Unlike Harvard's office of Admissions, Mr. Lat still labors under the antiquated notion that such abilities are purely quantifiable. Would he dare suggest that MIT is a superior institution because its SAT average is usually higher than Harvard's? I hope...
Radcliffe plays a role in encouraging women's participation in all areas of study. By providing mentorships and research partnerships with women scientists, Radcliffe helps female undergraduates see that the sciences are not a "masculine" field where women need to "think like men" to excel. And it also shows that it is just as much of an achievement to excel in the study of music or literature--two of the fields McLellan ridicules...
What propels a little child, sometimes just three or four, into this paramilitary life and persuades his parents to change their lives in order to support the endeavor? For one thing, the future stars tend to know right away that they can really excel at this. In Kerrigan's case, her group of 6-year-olds was still sitting on the ice waiting for the teacher to show them how to stand and glide when little Nancy began sketching spins. Skating talent - if not the persistence to perfect it - is almost always obvious...
Another stunning new feature is the Microsoft Wizards, a set of step-by-step guides which were first implemented in Microsoft's spreadsheet product, Excel. The wizards are used to create special documents. For example, to produce a standard resume, you can pick the resume wizard and it will prompt you for personal information. Whiz! Bang! An nice-looking resume is created...
...along -- Tuck Milligan as a sharecropper who uses the Civil War to settle some personal scores and later as a roving union organizer, Gregory Itzin as two characters who use the law to pervert justice -- are suddenly much better. Actresses who had not made much of an impression now excel: Lillian Garrett-Groag as a Indian captive, part wife and part slave; Katherine Hiler as two hillbilly girls and, especially, Jeanne Paulsen as the woman whose world was destroyed by mining and who finds salvation in spontaneous political courage...