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...Living with eight people for five days in the most intimate setting is almost the perfect precursor for getting thrown in with 1,600 people,” 2004 FOP Steering Committee member Neil K. Mehta ’05 said. “It makes you think about every relationship you form...
...years ago, my mother went for her annual checkup and added a new word to her vocabulary--osteopenia. She was well aware of osteoporosis, the bone thinning that occurs with age, but had never heard of its precursor. Having osteopenia meant she had low bone mass and was at greater risk of developing osteoporosis and perhaps breaking a hip or other bones in the years ahead...
Director F.W. Murnau’s precursor to his best known work, Nosferatu, The Haunted Castle is a tightly confined drama that takes place in a day at the shadowy Castle Vogelod. The film is set several months after a murder, when mysterious circumstances bring together key suspects and a host of peculiar characters. Enjoy one of the master’s earliest silent works with live piano accompaniment by Ukrainian HFA composer in residence Yakov Gubanov. Tickets $6. 9 p.m. Harvard Film Archive...
...definition of confidence is simple: the expectation of a positive outcome. By itself, confidence doesn’t create high performance; in fact, confidence is a consequence of success as much as a precursor of it. Success comes from doing the work well. But confidence provides the strength to try harder, the stamina not to give up at difficult moments, the resilience to recover from fumbles and setbacks that are inevitable in high-pressured college life. “Kanter’s Law” holds that everything can look like a failure in the middle. Confidence makes...
...previous HBO series, The Larry Sanders Show, was a precursor OF reality TV--a fictional talk show that bore a strange resemblance to the star's real-life career. Garry Shandling has been out of prime time since then, but he'll return on Sunday to host the Emmy Awards. TIME's Belinda Luscombe talked to him about the Emmys, TV today and his time...