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...standing at the bottom of Big Mouth, the nickname for the 15-ft.-deep bunker beside the 17th green at the Oakmont Country Club. It's swallowing me whole--I jump off the sand just to peek at the pin. Soon, the U.S. Open will descend on this storied Pittsburgh, Pa.--area course for a record eighth time. But today I'm the entertainment. A couple of caddies encourage me to swing my sand wedge and lift the ball over the mountain in front of me. I take my hardest hack; the ball knocks against Big Mouth...
...years into her tenure, Keohane has not stopped trying to pin down the details of her job description. She has used her outsider’s perspective—she is the only Corporation member without a Harvard degree—and the tumultuous events of her tenure as an opportunity to parse Harvard’s system of governance—to learn its ins and outs, and how to best navigate it. In the process, say friends and colleagues, she has become a quiet leader of Harvard’s most powerful governing body...
...freshman talent show four years ago, he’s played in two bands, penned three comic strips, directed 12 episodes of the campus-soap Ivory Tower, and shot 16 movies. “I just like doing these projects. I can’t ever really pin down one thing,” Ravishankara says. The physics concentrator says he is hooked on filmmaking because it allows him to be innovative in many capacities. “It lets me do a million things at once,” he says. “He?...
...items come from the prisoners, their families, or even attorneys; other sellers simply write to notorious prisoners and ask for letters, personal items or artwork. Kahan alerts authorities to online sales, even buying up items to take them out of circulation, but he says that dealers are hard to pin down. "It's like trying to exterminate cockroaches - they move from one site to another...
...easy. The way forward may not be entirely clear. But discipline and vision are what good management is all about, and in the long run we'd be better off to embrace these qualities than to pin our futures on amiable incompetence...