Word: rigor
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...works. Scattered pieces in the 90s are of interest (though few are included at MIT), but lack the visionary drama of her first events and performances. Instead, Ono’s idealistic faith in shared values and experiences has been channeled into new works that, lacking her former intellectual rigor, are more consolatory than conceptual. “Blueprint for a Sunrise” (2000), for example, which Ono performed for her Harvard audience last Sunday, is a healing but ultimately hollow shadow of more powerful early imaginings, while her political rhetoric—that we bring...
...unique combination of technical rigor and creative intelligence," says Stephen Kosslyn, a professor of psychology at Harvard University...
...school and college she taught for Making Waves, a California-based non-profit that targets low income kids at risk of falling behind grade level. At 22 she became the program's executive director, and turned what was a mostly mushy, feel-good enterprise into one with real instructional rigor. She also taught high school history, unpaid, at a nearby prep school. This year Henry, 28, graduated from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. But when she began looking for a job in Chicago, she faced a harsh reality: to become a principal she would need six years of experience...
...never really felt his life was in danger during his CIA years, says Harvard frightened him when he first arrived. Though valedictorian of his high school class, Kane, a scholarship winner from a public school in Rockland, a town of 8800 found himself unprepared for Harvard's academic rigor. "The breakdown was 50% of private school and 50% public school," Kane remembers. "But I found that the private school gradates were so far ahead of me that I realized I was going to have to work very hard in order to maintain my scholarship...
...Berlusconi could form a conservative bloc with Aznar, who shares his resistance to rapid enlargement of membership; he is already demanding a bigger Italian say on European farm policy. Berlusconi's promises to cut taxes, raise pensions and fund big public works projects seem at odds with the fiscal rigor required of euro-zone countries. Despite the potential for friction, the watchword within the E.U. is wait and see. "The trouble is we just don't know what Berlusconi thinks of Europe," says a French diplomat. "Europe has been a non-debate in Italy for the past 20 years...