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...Dance Exchange is not your average modern dance company. Artistic Director Peter DiMuro once described the company as “just like your last family reunion, if you and all your relatives got together and made dances.” Last Saturday night, the company’s performance proved they are a family to which anyone would want to belong. Even more remarkable than the wide age span of the dancers (which encompasses six decades) is the fact that you stop noticing it. Despite their wrinkles and white hair, the older members of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange...
...executive, you want to be plain vanilla. You don't want them to know you're struggling with child-care issues. You don't want to take vacations. You don't want to give them anything to suggest you're different, you can't cut it, you can't perform or that you aren't committed." The "invisible life" she once led outside the office came to light at Sears, where her boss told her he believes her ministry lends her integrity...
...make peace with their beta roles but they also make money from them. Among corporations, an increasingly well-rewarded portion of the workforce is made up of B players, managers and professionals somewhere below the top tier. They don't do the power lunching and ribbon cutting but instead perform the highly skilled, everyday work of making the company run. As skeptical shareholders look ever more askance at overpaid corporate A-listers, the B players are becoming more highly valued. It's an adaptation that serves the needs of both the corporation and the culture around it. "Everyone has ambition...
...Several Harvard players posted outstanding individual statistics—including freshman Kathryn McKinley’s career-high 19 kills and Blotky’s team-high 24 digs—but the Crimson could not effectively combine those performances to produce a victory.“One of our teams great weaknesses this year is putting all our individual efforts towards a larger effort,” Turley-Molony said. “We have a lot of extremely talented players, but when it comes to clutch time, we can’t always count on everyone to perform...
...could be adapted,” adding that Harvard’s ultimate goal is to make an even wider range of funding opportunities available on the site. She added that the website’s search function is similar to that of online vendor Amazon.com. When users perform a search, Amazon not only spits out a list of results but offers suggestions based on previous buyers’ preferences. Maramaldi said the new site is “user-friendly and straightforward,” and that it aims to provide a broad range of results for each search...