Word: focusing
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...for—requiring them in a students’ first year and thereby impinging upon students’ ability to choose what’s best for them. In most cases, undergraduates deeper into their Harvard education can make a more sensible decision on the language they will focus upon, rather than making a hasty decision freshman year (consider the aspiring doctor with a summer internship in Peru, or the economist with a sudden epiphany to embrace the classics...
...Faust says that this focus was particularly helpful during her time as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which transformed from a defunct women’s college to an elite research center during her tenure...
...messages they turned to after their defeat in Iowa: competence and change, no longer his conservative credentials. "The governor's experience as a solution-oriented guy, a turnaround CEO, is a particularly good fit in Michigan," says his national spokesman, Kevin Madden. "We can win there with a focus on the economy and showing the governor is someone who can lead on job creation and the global economy." Alex Castellanos, a senior strategist for the campaign, painted their seven-point loss - two points better than their finish in Iowa - as the campaign's hit of the reset button. "Something...
...student loans. "Too many have been invisible for too long," she said. "Well, you are not invisible to me." Where she had begun the race declaring she was "in it to win," you could almost hear the gears grinding toward a new message as Clinton shifted her focus outward on Tuesday night: "We are in it for the American people...
Besides message and focus, there will be other changes in the Clinton campaign, including two new additions: Maggie Williams, who was Hillary Clinton's fiercely loyal chief of staff when she was First Lady, and Doug Sosnik, who was a top aide to her husband. "Maggie will make her feel more comfortable; Doug will make him feel more comfortable," said one campaign adviser. "And they've both been through this before." For now at least, chief strategist Mark Penn - whom many had blamed for failing to recognize the larger forces that had been at work in her Iowa defeat - will...