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...worn down by two months of strenuous training, failed across the board to meet the challenge times she had set out for them. But rather than collectively dress down her team, Wriede-Morawski pulled aside a small group and placed the burden of getting the entire team up to par on their shoulders...
...wish-and-a-prayer July deadline, without landscaping or other embellishments. But the roof worked, and there are other bright spots. Greece has finished, on time, a brand-new airport, the Olympic village and parts of a new subway. The Markopoulo Equestrian Center is "an Olympic venue par excellence," said British equestrian Matt Straker, attending a recent test event. Athens itself, an ancient city with enough noisy charm to put Sydney and Atlanta to shame, is being spruced up. Some of the city's 60,000 stray cats and dogs have been corralled. Billboards have been taken down and potholes...
...poll is the example par excellence of the power of incumbency at the national level. Labor needed to pick up seven seats to win government - a mere 0.8% swing in the coalition's most vulnerable seats. But those seats did not fall to Labor. Not a single sitting Liberal or National M.P. lost to a Labor candidate. (Two coalition seats fell to Independents; Labor won Ballarat after a popular Liberal retired). For a variety of reasons, Labor also lost a bunch of its own marginal seats - or those that were deemed theirs through redistributions. According to a recent study...
...report’s recommendation to increase faculty-student contact is laudable. The report advocates major changes in the way faculty approach advising, calling on them to think of advising as something on par with “a major committee assignment.” Indeed, the culture of advising must change. Harvard purports to offer a world-class education to its students; world-class advising should be part of the package. Individual concentration advisers and student-faculty dinners, two of the report’s proposals, are both steps in the right direction, serving to personalize what...
...nice [to win one my senior year],” said Klein, who shot a two-over-par 72 on Sunday to secure the victory. “My adrenaline was really rushing and I realized that this was going to be the last time ever...