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...excavates genius,” Bhaba remarked, “she does not just express it…She has mined the hard stone of unthinking habit and unforgiving circumstance to reveal the finer mettle of the American character...
...operation involves advanced microsurgical techniques, the joining of arterial walls with thread finer than a human hair, and exquisitely delicate maneuvers by the surgeons. Nonetheless, hundreds of doctors have mastered its intricacies, and the operation has been performed on thousands of patients around the world. There is just one problem: for most patients, it does not seem to help...
Lucky me. After distilling the finer accomplishments of my recent years into a series of bland bullet points, I eagerly awaited the response of many a glorified firm...
...review should indicate how rich an arts community is and not how knowledgeable a reporter is about intonation, ensemble, or finer points of brass playing. I ask that future Crimson reporters review concerts with a wider perspective. Your words have consequences, and your publication has a responsibility to the Harvard arts community at large...
...lives lived exuberantly can yield grand things, lives lived more quietly may produce something even finer. As Battaglia puts it: "Shyness is simply a human difference, a variation that can be a form of richness." Scientists studying shyness never tire of pointing out that Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela were unusually reserved people and may have achieved far less if they'd been otherwise. "There's no question in my mind that T.S. Eliot would have qualified as one of the [shy] kids in our study," says Kagan. "Yet he also won a Nobel Prize." --Reported by Sandra...