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...Salahudeen, a sophomore at the time, knew he wanted to return to Tulane that spring. “I think out of comfort and necessity I just went back to Tulane. I did not have plans to transfer elsewhere. I really just wanted to settle down and [develop] some rapport with professors and classes, to work in a lab, to get started on my thesis,” he says. “Tulane’s a great school and there was really no point to leaving for the sake of leaving. I wanted to contribute to the rebuilding...
...young man's impatience, as if waiting for, rather than earning, the exciting passages (he conducted portions of the Edinburgh rehearsal with one hand in his pocket). Will he maintain the orchestra's respect? "Of course there are concerns," Simon Rattle says, before evoking again the mysterious nonlinguistic rapport between musicians and their leader. "But with Gustavo the music is the answer to every question you could...
...well.) A decade later, he invented history's most successful game show, Wheel of Fortune. When he died, he was in the midst of creating a new game, Crosswords. Some called his shows lowest-common-denominator fluff, but Griffin drew those huge audiences with a real instinct for and rapport with television...
...touch. His name became synonymous in later years with the kind of fluffy, disposable entertainment that epitomized lowest-common-denominator television in the years when the channels were few and the audience huge. One reason for that huge audience, however, was people who had a real instinct for and rapport with the medium. People like the dear boy himself...
...Pazzta's fate, in fact, will likely reveal less about its owners' culinary skills or business savvy than about the kind of rapport 21st century Barcelonans seek with their food. Ripoll is optimistic. "The Boqueria is about more than food," he says. "It's about health, about quality of life, today as well as in the past...