Word: focus
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...Often in the third game, the team facing elimination is fighting for its life,” Baise said. I think we’ve reached a spot where we don’t panic, where we can settle down and focus on our serves, and don’t give up leads as much anymore. I attribute that to our mental game, and we’re playing with more confidence...
...female empowerment” is concerned, excessive focus on the “female” has a detrimental impact on “empowerment.” Empowerment demands success regardless of gender and has been achieved by many women at Harvard. None of my Harvard experiences has indicated the gender gap in leadership positions that the forthcoming Women’s Center report promises to show, as women hold top spots in every one of my extracurricular activities. Indeed, both the UC president and vice president are currently women, as is the president of Harvard. But these women...
...characteristics and achievements. Harvard women have accomplished much in a wide range of non-gender related roles, and Women Week’s attempt to reduce these achievements to “women’s issues” frankly detracts from their status as equal citizens. While female-focused activities are not necessarily a bad thing—organizations such as Women in Business and the Circle of Women, for example, enable real impact—Women’s Week seems to solely focus on allowing women to wallow in their sexuality...
...article in The New York Times earlier this week noted that common complaints have included a focus on approaches that are overly scientific, and that business schools do not produce entrepreneurs or leaders, only individuals intent on making financial gains...
...Brinkema's focus is the plea deal al-Arian signed in 2006 to avoid a retrial on the deadlocked terrorism charges. Under its terms, al-Arian, 51, a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian who since 1986 had been an instructor at the University of South Florida in Tampa, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and was, after taking time already served into account, to be deported nearly immediately. But a federal prosecutor in Virginia evidently had no intention of allowing al-Arian to leave the country. Unbeknownst to defense lawyers at the time, Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg was preparing...