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...sophisticated East Coast girl” arrived at Radcliffe. “I wasn’t terribly awkward,” says Whitman, who was used to eating dinner with Einstein and Edward Teller. “Social situations didn’t faze me a whole lot.”Roommate Paula B. Cronin ’56 soon gleaned that Whitman, who would go on to serve as co-editor of the Radcliffe News, was unique.“She was full of energy,” Cronin recollects. “She paced all the time...
...rather have what I want and suffer for a few days than restrict myself all week.”Kauble informs me at breakfast on Thursday morning that he has about eight pounds to lose by Friday at 5pm. This doesn’t faze him at all. He shrugs his shoulders and continues eating the relatively normal breakfast we both have: a bagel with peanut butter and a large green tea from Tealuxe. It’s the last substantial meal I’ll have until Friday at 5pm.“This really works...
...that to counter today's stiff easterly, he'll move his horizontal sight three-60ths of a degree to the left. Shooting is all about precision, he says. And consistency. And tenacity, says David, an engineer who won a U.S. sniper-rifle championship last year. "Don't let anything faze you. Breathe. Relax. If you do a bad shot, forget it. Put everything you've got into the next one." The reward of total concentration: total relaxation. Even when I score poorly, shooting makes me forget everything else in the world...
...doctors good patients? Others may disagree, but I think they are. Medical jargon doesn't faze them, so communication is easier, and their expectations tend to be more reasonable. Anyone in medicine is painfully aware that there are plenty of problems for which we have no good answer. Nurses tend to be even better patients, being adept at following doctors' orders--a virtue lacking in doctors...
...European markets, and how to go to US markets,” Program Co-director Zhang Weijiong, who is co-dean at CEIBS, said. Their desire to learn will cost the participants about $43,000. It’s a hefty price, but one that is unlikely to faze them—the CEOs head Chinese enterprises with assets of no less than $1 billion, Zhang said. Their companies are market leaders in industries ranging from financial services to electronic appliances to real estate, according to Cynthia Lu, national marketing manager for CEIBS. The first of four five-day programs...