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They possess tenacity and street-smarts that the nonathletic among us could never attain. Playing on a team—understanding the role of communication and selflessness in order to succeed—is a concept that is difficult for me to grasp, given that my achievements have been mostly individually motivated. In representing a team and a community just by choosing to show up for a game—regardless of whether they see any playing time—athletes display an unselfishness and sense of loyalty that non-athletes just don?...
...Time and again, she has demonstrated an extraordinary capacity to grasp the practical and human aspects of complicated problems and to move people toward creative and well-considered solutions,” Summers wrote...
...April, when Amanda finally succumbed to a two-year battle with cancer, I felt an immeasurable sense of loss. Not the kind you feel upon losing grasp of something you had been holding near and close, but rather the kind you feel upon losing grasp of something distant, something at the edges of your consciousness, but yet something that forms a fundamental part...
Honors are meant to distinguish between those students who are merely good and those who consistently have done work of the highest quality. The Staff’s tepid criticism of the Faculty’s proposal does not grasp the central purpose of honors and allows far too many students to earn them. Unlike grades, which can measure work on an absolute scale, honors are by necessity comparative. Although it is difficult to make comparisons between those who concentrate in history and literature and those who study physics, the Faculty continues to abdicate its responsibility for separating...
...ultra-orthodox Catholic, he sent nude pictures of his wife to his best friend and, in one of the weirdest discoveries of the Mailer/Schiller research, proposed that his friend use the date-rape drug Rohypnol to seduce her. No mere diagnosis of "mental disorder," says Mailer, could begin to grasp the man's complexities: "There are great holes in formal psychology. Hanssen just blazes through them...