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Naturally, these instances aren’t the norm. “In general, it’s a well-oiled machine,” says Julia E. Kobick ’05, IOP Forum Committee chair, about her own experiences with speakers. Still, the IOP does host a pretty influential and powerful clientele, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that there are a few divas among their ranks. They’ve got to eat and drink...
...field marshal for being open to new ideas. "He's intelligent and quick, and he knows his stuff," Rumsfeld said. "He has total ownership over these matters. He cares only about what is the most effective way to put military power on a military target--that's not the norm, necessarily...
...grinding on the cover of major national magazines and appearing on television more often than the country's President. Inul's concert fees rose dramatically, to anywhere from $1,100 to $1,700 per show. TV programs in which she appeared consistently drew 14 share points, well above the norm for music shows. Indonesians snapped up copies of illegally recorded VCDs of Inul's old East Java performances?making her perhaps the first musician to owe much of her fame to piracy...
Though CHEC, with its smaller-scale equipment and children-only policy, is not yet the norm, Scotti is just one of a rapidly growing group of teens and preteens who regularly hit the health club to lift weights, run on treadmills, take spinning classes and relax in the hot tub. According to the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), membership among teens and preteens has jumped 65% in the past five years. Kids ages 6 to 17 now make up 12% of all club memberships, and about a quarter of IHRSA's member clubs have some kind of family program...
...agree that high academic standards should be upheld for study abroad students, I do not think that making it easier to go abroad must entail making it easier to be abroad. In Spain I took four rigorous, challenging classes with distinguished, talented and attentive professors. This should be the norm for study abroad at Harvard, but without the red tape—taking a leave of absence, losing student status (and thereby having to pay off loans), sorting out housing concerns—which students like myself had to go through to get there. We?...