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Indulge for a moment in a spectacle of what Harvard might have been...
...Your colleague: Baber: Let?s assume this is a person you know has done a great job, because, as we all know, the axe falls on the worthy and the unworthy. At the very moment, say ?I?m going to stay in touch with you.? Then what you can say is, ?Sit down with me, go through your resume with me? and, as a co-worker, point out your successes as a team or projects that person has excelled at. The key thing you can offer is to introduce your coworker to the people you know, because...
...soon learned, however, that it requires a good deal of awkward fumbling to find the sweet spot that turns on the reader and causes the door to yield. Worse yet, to do it with our wallet still in our pants requires a great deal of pelvic thrusting, prolonging the moment when, finally, our impatient rubbing provokes that high-pitched shriek of welcome entrance. More frustrating still is the ease with which our fellow schools have introduced such measures. To our knowledge, their devices all seem so much more sensitive, and unlocking doors doesn’t require nearly as much...
...McKinley said. “It’s about not allowing four or five or six points in a row anymore. We noticed it and worked hard at it—changing up passing or doing a different play.”Harvard’s big moment came during the third set. The Crimson fell behind early, but would not allow the trend of the previous two games to define the third. Battling back from a 16-10 deficit, plays from Ingersoll and junior co-captain Kat Kocurek contributed to a 10-2 Harvard run that...
...Mbeki appeared calm and dignified as he defended his legacy of 14 years as the premier policy architect of a post-apartheid South African state, first as deputy president under Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999, then as head of state. But despite his demeanor, it was a bitter moment for a man who, as the son of ANC liberation hero Govan Mbeki, has often said that he was "born into the struggle...