Word: sharpness
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...short, the Harvard defense is going to have to be every bit as sharp as it was against Cornell in the ECAC championship game if it hopes to keep this group in check...
Last spring, Harvard purchased 30 acres in Watertown, provoking sharp criticism from town officials who said that losing the land from the town’s tax base would cripple Watertown financially...
...Witness the carnage after the sharp, unexpected crash on corporate I.T. spending late in 2000: losses convinced IBM to all but abandon in-house PC manufacturing by farming assembly out to subcontractors. Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are trying to merge. Dell was hurt by the downturn, too. The company laid off 1,700 workers last year, its first redundancies ever. But it still managed to increase sales by 18.3% in 2001, showing a profit of $2.1 billion...
Poet Samuel Coleridge described drama as “that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.” I was reminded of this quote upon revisiting Joseph Kesselring’s classic comedy Arsenic and Old Lace in a sharp production that transports a theatergoer with delight into a world of unrepentant absurdity...
Instead, on March 15, we will watch eight men and women parade around, competing to see who demonstrates the most “poise and originality.” While we may learn just how flexible the guy from section is or how many sharp objects our roommate can juggle, the show will shed no light on what makes traditional beauty pageants so distasteful. Impact’s politically correct ambitions ensure that nothing meaningful will happen. But at least they will avoid offending people—except, perhaps, with boredom...