Word: masterfulness
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...that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk or a headstrong toddler starting to talk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, around the start of middle or junior high school, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers. For the parents...
...them a short field, you’re going to lose points.”Hormann had four interceptions on the season until Saturday. Collectively, the team had thrown seven picks and lost 11-of-16 fumbles. On the first drive of the game, the game’s master narrative was briefly inverted. Freshman punt returner Andrew Berry fumbled on the Harvard 32-yard line, the first time after kickoff that the Crimson had touched the ball. Fortunately for Harvard, Columbia went three-and-out—losing one play to a fumble recovered deep in the backfield...
...funky tempo is met with surprisingly philosophical lyrics like: “What you think is what you’re soon adoring/You don’t want the truth the truth is boring.” Who knew that Britain’s pop master had thoughts past booze and broads? Williams then points the lyrics at himself, taking him to previously unexplored areas of introspection. In the gentle ballad “Make Me Pure,” he settles on his faults (“I got a ton of selfish genes and lazy bones beneath this...
Gates insists that the increased emphasis on African studies reflects his master strategy for the department. “It was always my plan that we would build in Af-Am Studies first,” he says, “And then build in African Studies...
...just have to see where things are going.” Many Yale students say they plan to abide by the rules. “Once we heard about the regulations, we didn’t want to do anything to sour relations with our [college] master, who has been very accommodating and helpful as we’ve thrown parties throughout the semester,” said Max R. Engel, another member of the “Sextet.” Others are more skeptical about whether students will be able to control their party numbers...