Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imagine the great master, sitting in his apartment in Craigie Circle here in Cambridge, standing up at a lectern as he always did, writing on a summer night with the moths at the window, then looking at his son Dmitri, whom he had saved from the Nazis in his own flight from wartime France, whose future he foresaw, whose childhood he shaped into a memory of joy. Then, blinded by tears at his own creation, the great Russian humanist rescues his Krug, since David's death is not to be borne...
James H. Ware, the Master of Cabot House said in an e-mail message, "Quality of transportation for the entire House community and for varsity athletes in particular is an important issue for Cabot House...
...Royal just yet, but primates are getting pretty good at math. A couple of rhesus monkeys at Columbia University have perfected the art of counting ?- up to nine, at least -? according to a study published Friday in the journal Science. "They share with humans the ability to master simple arithmetic on at least the level of a two-year-old child," said researcher Elizabeth Brannon...
...salt aside, the toasters overtly acknowledged tradition only in passing. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Emeritus and former Master of Lowell Zeph Stewart was one of those raising their glasses to the self-named "Lady Masters of Lowell House." Noting a link between past and present leadership, he offered a blessing in Sanskrit, a language both he and Eck love. Other speakers invoked the names of past Lowell leaders, including first senior tutor Pope Professor of Latin Emeritus Mason Hammond and first master Julian Lowell Coolidge. Plummer Professor of Morals Peter J. Gomes spoke eloquently of the importance of teamwork...
McAfee said that Noble's parents, who live in Sante Fe, N.M., arrived in Boston early this afternoon and spent the day at the hospital. McAfee, House Co-Master Diana L. Eck and several of Noble's friends joined them, though the intensive care unit where Noble is staying does not allow visitors outside the immediate family...