Word: pointedness
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Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06 first took to the stage at age four. Sure, her role only required her to sit still, and she was only cast because of her ability to pay attention, but none of that mattered—it was the experience, one she...
As I pointed out before in an editorial response, the difference between Wikipedia errors and errors in the mainstream press is their relative ease in correction. As Bruce Schneider said, the interesting thing about systems isn’t how they perform when they’re working, but how...
Self-assured but still speaking gently, she gives the actors more pointed and direct notes. "I want you guys to settle more into your authority," she says to a pair. And she makes sure that actors properly understand the characters. "Widow Quinn never wonders whether she has the power of...
RB: I think that’s true too. With “women in science,” there were real gross simplifications about what Summers said. That’s a process that happens when someone makes a gaffe in a certain way and it becomes set in...
And yet despite such displays of mettle, acceptance from some of the guys is grudging. Says a military-police sergeant in Baghdad: "I've got nothing against them. But they're slower and weaker"--and therefore would be a liability in hand-to-hand combat. Some commanders grumble about the...