Word: focusing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...disappointing, however, to see media coverage of the elections focus on identity politics instead of the candidates’ substantive issues. Even more disappointing has been the way in which both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama have stooped to new lows of campaigning in the race for the democratic nomination. Whether it is Obama advisor Samantha Power’s comment about the “monster” Senator Clinton, or Senator’s Clinton opportunistic response to Senator Obama’s “elitist” comment about rural America, negative campaigning threatens only hurt...
...answer to that question came into focus when I least expected it to—not when doing things I had always hoped to do, but during the most routine and seemingly mundane moments. I had missed bumping into old friends for a brief conversation between classes, cheering on the Celtics in the Eliot grille, and late-night snacking at the Kong. I had missed enjoying old jokes with my roommates in the dining hall, hearing the card swiper call everyone who walked in for a meal “my baby,” having a friend...
...Laurence P. Senelick is also familiar with Harvard. The Tufts University drama professor earned two graduate degrees from Harvard, and he agreed that the focus of the A.R.T. needs to be returned to the students. But in his view, the blame lies partially with Brustein...
...unprecedented move, the president launched five interdisciplinary initiatives, MBB among them, and made them a focus of his $2 billion fundraising drive, a five-year effort billed as Harvard’s first University-wide capital campaign...
...despite the new focus, Hyman found that the fortunes of the MBB initiative were subject to the whims of deans intent on prioritizing their own agendas who chafed at the notion of acquiescing to the desires of the center...