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...separates them is the strength of their minds. Over a Test career that spanned two decades, Waugh worked at improving his concentration. That may sound dull. He concentrated well? Big deal. But his ability to shut out distractions and silence his demons was the making of him. In the mid-1990s, a bunch of admiring Sri Lankan players gathered around him after a Test. One asked Waugh whether he meditated, for he was trance-like at the crease. "It was," Waugh writes, "one of the finest compliments I could have wished...
...Decker events in the past.The first in her family to graduate from high school, Decker says her family’s reliance on public resources first sparked her interest in politics, long before she majored in political economy and social thought at UMass Amherst.This year, Decker has joined the mid-career program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.Although she remains a proponent of liberal causes ranging from the environment to the antiwar movement, Decker, an incumbent who is campaigning for her fourth term, dismisses accusations by challengers that the current council is outdated.“When...
...forensic evidence of genocide, and the emotional experience of the judge who presided over the Nuremberg trials were subtle reminders of the range of personal experiences of those touched by genocide. This range of emotional response was extended when the narrator, dancer Peter DiMuro, turned to the audience mid-performance, and asked about their reactions the first time they heard about the Nuremberg trials. DiMuro proceeded to build a dance out of the gestures audience members made while speaking. He then had the entire audience perform this gestural dance, and the experience of sitting amid the sea of gesturing arms...
Five more came from Connecticut, Wisconsin, Michigan and Rhode Island, and there were but two from the Mid-Atlantic—Ithaca, N.Y. and Gladstone, N.J.—both of whom attended prep school...
Demerath got very different results when he conducted research in a very different place--Papua, New Guinea. In the mid-1990s, he spent a year in a small village there, observing how the children learned. Usually, he found, they saw school as a noncompetitive place where it was important to succeed collectively and then move on. Succeeding at the expense of others was seen as a form of vanity that the New Guineans call "acting extra." Says Demerath: "This is an odd thing for them...