Word: matters
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...solely by academic performance. Determinants such as grades, scholarships and SAT scores are used as the definitive barometers of an individual's ability to think and reason, more than as measures of what has been learned in a classroom. This has the unfortunate result of making intelligence only a matter of education, and downplays the roles of wit, imagination and curiosity as equal indications of intelligence and character not generally measured by cold academic statistics...
...think there's ever been a development project that Bill Walsh... didn't like, no matter how big, no matter how ugly," says Gladys P. Gifford, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund...
Prominent among these efforts was an investigation of the payments Harvard makes in lieu of taxes on buildings used for affiliated housing, such as Peabody Terrace. At a Council hearing on the matter, Walsh described the alternative payments an example of "the Derek Bok philosophy" of avoiding responsibility to the city...
...helped us a lot and will, hopefully, help us in the future," Gielen said. "We had to be mentally tough, because every possession means so much more in such a game. We have to develop that mental toughness. We have the talent to win games, it's just a matter of playing strong defense and keeping our confidence...
...Celtics problems are deeper than Rodgers' misguided ideas. No matter how you align them on the court or how fast you insist they play, the Celtics are still old. Their bench is still weak...