Word: performer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard continues to perform as it has been, there is no team in the Ivy League that can even play in the same gym with the Crimson...
...makes me prepare for sections more thoroughly. It makes me feel like there's a real need to perform well," he says...
...first to admit that his opportunities were opened by others. "I was clearly helped at a variety of stages of my life because people gave me a chance to perform." His high school debate coach, Eva Doupe, arranged the scholarship that sent him to debate camp his sophomore year and once spent an hour persuading the football coach that Raines should miss a game in favor of a crucial out-of-town debate tournament...
...granddaughter Robin Murray-O'Hair, from whom Madalyn was inseparable. "She took the ceremony very seriously," says Kerns. In Texas justices of the peace are likely to slip a "God" or even a "Jesus" into an otherwise civil service; to avoid such sabotage, O'Hair had obtained certification to perform marriages. She now pronounced the couple man and wife. It was a lovely moment, Kerns recalls, though, inevitably, he was nipped by one of O'Hair's several ill-tempered little dogs. Afterward, he says, "there was music and champagne, and we went out to dinner. And Madalyn. Madalyn...
...students, beware. Most firms recruiting at Harvard require long hours and extensive travel for the financial reward they offer. In the eyes of the firm, first-year para-consultants "perform mechanistic repetitive tasks, more cost effectively," according to the HBS management consulting handbook...