Word: skillful
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...Corporation faces the future, it should choose a President with greater skill as a leader of academics and with Summers’ vision for Harvard’s future. The easy road towards retrenchment and consensus-based leadership will not make Harvard stronger. The next president must not only calm the waters, but also make hard decisions that will sadly, but inevitably, cause some resentment. But Harvard is not just a worker’s cooperative run for the faculty of one particular school. The Corporation must support decisions that put the needs of all of the University?...
...blockmates all have nicknames for each other, so often my work is done for me. And I also become an anti-nicknamer, with a tendency to call boys by their full first names rather than the shortened form they go by. In deference to the teacher of this skill, I rarely greet my father with any normal form of “Dad.” Instead it’s “Papa Bear” or “Mr. Man.”Even with all this training, I sometimes wonder why it?...
...life, Khadir has honed the occupation he learned as a child: fighting in the Kurdish militia against Saddam Hussein's forces. He has been jailed seven times since he was 14 and has seen a favorite uncle executed. Now, at 32, he is perfecting an entirely new skill, which could change this region as much as the wars in which he has fought have: drilling for oil. Since late November, he has toiled about 30 ft. aboveground on the first derrick erected in Kurdistan in decades, by a Norwegian outfit using a Chinese rig, of all things. From...
...distraction. The faster people can do things, such as reading an e-mail or sending a text message, the shorter their attention span becomes. It seems as if everyone has attention-deficit disorder. Our society is so invested in getting things done fast that we have lost the skill of patiently sitting still and focusing. It's as if people need to be diverted. If there were fewer distractions from pointless e-mails, phone calls and other things, a lot more could be achieved. Ally Whitney Eugene, Oregon...
Whether it was the sensitivity of the orchestra, the skill of the performer, or both, every time Gerlach sang, she and the orchestra came off as one aggregate instrument of pain and fear...