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...women eked out a victory after junior Alexa Weingarden won her final bout 5-4, winning the weapon by an identical score. Unlike in many sports, advanced fencers don’t always dominate against lesser opponents. The trouble lies in the fact that lower level fencers do not react in the same way as one might expect, and so it is up to the better fencer to make the adjustments. It took almost the entire meet for the Crimson to make that adjustment in women’s saber. “We had a hard...
...Large 2005; finalist for Be Your Best Self 2005. Sopen B. Shah ’08: runner-up to America’s Junior Miss 2004 (Top Five) and National Interview winner as Wisconsin’s Junior Miss 2004. FM: How do people at Harvard react when they find out that you have done pageants? AEB: I think people are really afraid of juxtaposing beauty and academic talent and intelligence, so I do think it’s a shock to some people. WGH: It’s like that whole thing that people think that you can?...
...conflict is between your biological child and your stepchild? Balancing the scales of justice between them can test parents sorely. Susan Wallis, a kindergarten teacher in Ellicott City, Md., initially tried to defend her son Sam, now 10, when his three older stepsiblings teased him. "I'd react, 'My poor baby!'" she admits. Her husband Kent Davis suggested that when the kids fought, the disputants should bring their issue before both parents. Each child, without interruption and using "I" statements, would explain what happened and how it made him feel. The tactic has helped the kids recognize when they...
...check. It was important not to be too accessible or available. I always go back to what people do in reality. Would they do this in a real situation? So I'd say, You don't have to look at the person. You don't have to react. You can do nothing. And that will have more impact and power than anything you could...
...experiences also sway us, goading our brains into assessing risks based on rapid whispers of positive or negative emotion. "If you look at genocide, we just don't react," says Paul Slovic, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon. "With 9/11 we lost 3,000 people in one day, but during 1994 in Rwanda 800,000 people were killed in 100 days - that's 8,000 a day for 100 days - and the world didn't react at all. Now you see the same thing with Darfur...