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Sundquist, however, did not kiss the baby and tried to refocus the conversation on issues relevant to the election, even though he asserted that “we like babies...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candidates Give Face Time to ‘On Harvard Time’ | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...need versus want.” “I wanted to make sure the president had all the information he needed, not necessarily all the information people wanted him to have,” he said. Card also recalled times when he had to refocus President Bush on political priorities. “Like, if the Texas Rangers were in town to play the Baltimore Orioles or something, [the president would ask], ‘Yeah, I’d love to see the Texas Rangers today. Can we get them in?’” said...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Card Says Bush ‘Needed’ Him To Leave His Post | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...about a work devoted entirely to the muscles. However, Porter’s accompanying dance truly made the poems come to life. While speaking the poems aloud, Porter skipped, twirled, ran, rotated, lay, jumped, crunched, and curled all over the stage, using that single chair as a point of refocus and occasional music as a mood intensifier. All other aspects of the stage and set were empty, giving the performance a raw, bare-bones aesthetic. Just as Shakespeare’s plays are meant to be performed, not merely read, “Namely, Muscles” asks...

Author: By Ada Pema, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Poet Puzzles in ‘Namely, Muscles’ | 10/28/2007 | See Source »

...administrative support to make substantive change. But the heart of the matter comes in considering the scope of what we have before us: addressing climate change will be a process different from any other we have faced as a generation or a globe; we must engage governments, shift economies, refocus sciences, and revolutionize industries...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, Spring Greeney, and Jake C. Levine | Title: Undergraduates, Overlooked | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...radical change. In 1996 Danone was selling beer, glass, frozen food, pasta sauces, candies, Italian cheese, cookies, dairy products and water. Riboud, who took over the business from his famous industrialist father Antoine that year (the family controls less than 0.5% of the shares), decided in 1997 to refocus the company, which began its conglomerate life as a glassmaker called BSN in 1966. "We used to say that the mission of the company was to bring health through food to the maximum number of people," he explains. Thanks to Numico's baby-food and clinical-nutrition divisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danone Cuts Out the Cookies | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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