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Walter Stanul—“Woodshop Walter” to VESers in the know—started his affair with sharp objects at a young age. “In Cub Scouts I learned how to sharpen a knife,” he says. “I’ll never forget the thrill of getting a razor sharp tool.” He used his first chisel as a child in the garage of his rural Florida home. Now the official Woodshop Coordinator for the VES department, Stanulcompares working with a table...
...Chertoff wants to sharpen the focus at airport and border screening stations, too. He is pushing the expansion of registered traveler programs that would allow individuals to volunteer to have their past travel records checked out so that, barring a red flag, they can be processed quickly through airports and border crossings. "That gives us more resources to focus on people who we might have more questions about," he says...
There are already plenty of services at Harvard that sharpen the differences between socioeconomic classes. Harvard Student Agency Cleaners, for example, lets some students pick up clean and neatly-folded clothes in crackling plastic bags. The less well-off among us, however, make semi-weekly journeys to the basement with bulging mesh laundry bags and quarters in hand. These differences extend to the social sphere as well—to final clubs composed predominately of wealthy young men, or to basic activities, like eating out, that some students cannot afford to enjoy. But while class differences are a fact...
Summers apologized, telling his critics that the memo was supposed to be a “sardonic counterpoint, an effort to sharpen the analysis” and that he had not been advancing a serious policy option. The week after the story broke, the Economist came to Summers’ defense, editorializing in eerily familiar terms that if Summers “was merely trying to provoke debate,” “it is to be hoped that he succeeds—and that the Bank does not, instead, go silent on the subject...
...good learning is about strategy, especially in deal-making,” said Regan A. Smith, a second-year law student. “Getting good at poker is a way to sharpen those tools...