Word: focusing
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...play that is often as much about the time it is staged as the period it depicts. Despite the assertion of co-directors Robert D. Salas ’08 and Winter Mead ’08 that the play’s language was the focus of the production, the version produced by Kimberly E. Gittleson ’08, who is also a Crimson magazine editor, made several gestures toward the present. But the modern elements of the show never coalesced into clear ideas, resulting in a well done but ultimately uninspiring version of Shakespeare?...
...flash memory instead of a standard hard disc, extending a mini Mac's battery life and allowing it to start up quickly, like a phone. A Jobs subnotebook would likely be bigger than FlipStart's but smaller than a laptop. Apple would have a distinct software advantage, given its focus on nongeeks...
...please do not allow your children to leave home looking like this. Not only does such clothing place a bull's-eye on them for sexual predators, but it also encourages them to seek out the affirmation of boys at far too young an age. Help your young girls focus on building character, not a wardrobe meant to attract attention. Then maybe you wouldn't have to worry so much about your 12-year-old contracting a sexually transmitted virus. Julie A. Outzen, ST. PAUL, MINN...
...that drives them online. "What do you think is the No. 1 problem that preachers' wives have?" says Lynne Dugan, author of Heart to Heart with Pastors' Wives. "Friendship. Loneliness. You're surrounded by all these other people in the congregation, and you feel isolated." The Christian support group Focus on the Family concurs: loneliness is the top topic on its hotline for pastors' wives. After all, a PW can hardly discuss marital woes or child-raising tribulations with her husband's flock, and colleagues or other friends outside the church don't get life inside it. "The church becomes...
...major political parties, which outlive their individual leaders and partisans, the past is never dead. It's not even past. That's especially evident when those parties look to the future. As Republicans and Democrats focus on November 2008, it's clear each of them yearns to nominate a second coming of its beau ideal, the figure it has most admired in recent decades. For Republicans, that's Ronald Reagan. For Democrats, it's Robert Kennedy...