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Even so, getting to the podium won't be a slap shot for Hughes. Cohen, a gifted performer, is as much a master of the mental game as she is of the triple Lutz. At last month's nationals she clipped Kwan twice during the warm-up before their final programs, rattling Kwan enough that she cut short the prep for her jumps. Cohen denied the hockey tactics were intentional, but gamesmanship may be part of her package. "I'm always trying to be on top of the podium," she says. Hampered by a back injury last year, Cohen...
Ohno decided he did, and he has been nearly unstoppable on the ice ever since. He started eating right and became a master of technique, which, in curve-heavy short track, is just as important as the raw power generated by his bullet-shape 5-ft. 7-in., 165-lb. frame...
...news, when it broke, was greeted with astonishment in the Baltimore suburb of Mount Washington, where Rusnak's neighbors had only kind words for him. He certainly doesn't fit the stereotype of a brash young Master of the Universe. His career had been steady rather than spectacular. After a long stint at Chemical Bank (now part of JP Morgan Chase), he joined Allfirst in 1993 and scarcely made a ripple. He was "not in any sense a star trader," Buckley said. His personal life was equally unremarkable. Married with two kids and a Labrador, he attended services...
Second, a compressed grade scale makes it harder for outsiders such as graduate schools or business recruiters to understand what Harvard’s grades mean. While an inflated A might look good on a transcript, it diminishes the accomplishments of students who actually master the material and produce innovative, original work. This damages the credibility of Harvard’s grades...
...years, students have been urging masters to develop a tutor evaluation system parallel to Harvard’s course evaluation system,” Co-Master James C. Ware said...