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...Sharon B. Weil. Weil worked for Rollerblade until six months ago, when she quit and decided to start a team to give exhibitions and compete with other squads. She started scouting at Boston's Esplanade for talented skaters, and later held auditions to find the skaters with the most flair and skill...
Rudenstine appointed Jeremy R. Knowles as dean of the Faculty in the spring of 1991. Since then, Knowles has brought a British flair to his task of dealing with a budget crunch and building the ranks of the faculty...
...Bright, close-mouthed, native students are needed, and evidence of a flair for languages and mathematics would be advantageous," said the naval communications director in a letter to President Comstock, adding that "any intense, sociological quirks would, of course, be undesirable...
Agarwal's comments reflect a new feistiness among developing countries on environmental matters. A coalition of them, called the Group of 77, has put up a remarkably united front in the Earth Summit talks. Led by Indians and Pakistanis, whose language skills and flair for bureaucratic nitpicking serve them well in parliamentary maneuverings, the G-77 nations have effectively resisted what they see as an effort to make them pay for the industrial world's environmental sins. "We may not have been able to get what we want," says India's Pachauri. "But we can draw satisfaction from the fact...
...North Pole event illustrates another aspect of Counter's character: Whether he's bringing a celebrity to campus or filming tribes in the South America, counter does things with flair. The man has a penchant for publicity...