Word: focusing
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...very small minority, the Cantabrigian branch of the Grand Old Party mostly expresses itself via a twice-monthly column, “The Right View,” published in the Cambridge Chronicle. Members and friends of the Republican City Committee take turns writing the articles, which focus on issues like taxes, school curricula, and the performance of the current city government...
...prove to be interesting from the historical perspective of the evolution of the artist. Again, these photographs do not have the characteristic crispness yet—a portrait of an unidentified woman has more of the hazy film noir feel—nor do they have the same intense focus on the individual, but they do show Karsh’s beginnings and allow one to see just how far he came.The text accompanying the collection explains that “Karsh wrote of his fascination with the ‘inward power’ of his sitters. He said...
...With only six hours in a school day, most teachers are pressured to focus on academic material in order to improve student performance on standardized testing such as those administered by the Mass. Comprehensive Assessment System, school administrators...
...While Mayor E. Denise Simmons acknowledges that CityStep benefits Cambridge schools that already have strong academic and extracurricular programs, she does not recommend that the organization’s leaders completely redirect its focus to less privileged schools...
...Leave aside McCain’s credentials–his lifetime of service, his bipartisan politics, his ability to rally a party divided, his fierce following in Arizona–and focus on your own. The only concept more ingrained in Harvard students than the election is the vague concept of our mental superiority, our supreme privilege to walk into Harvard classrooms, and our uneasy discomfort with being the “chosen ones.” While we can debate the merits of these claims, let us instead use our mental gifts to choose the right leader for tomorrow...