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...think there were times last year,” Donato says, “when he was unstoppable with his speed and skill...
...since grown to include about 35 undergraduate women volunteers and over 110 girls from the Boston area. The program works with girls in grades three through five to develop self-esteem and leadership in preparation for adolescence and uses biographies of current and historic female role models, skill-building activities, and mentoring to accomplish those goals according to SWSG’s press release for the event. Since Hyde founded SWSG in 2001, the program has grown into a national group that has established chapters at Carnegie Mellon University, Northeastern University, and Simmons College, according to the national SWSG website...
...opening “Tarana” dance. Wearing pastel pinks and blues and hair twisted into flower-accented French braids, the girls danced in the style of Bharatnatyam—an Indian classical and geometrically graceful dance genre that dates back to 4000 B.C.—and skillfully embodied the spirit of a traditional Indian village In “Ashto Sambur,” Jessica M. Marglin ’06 used her mudras—intricate hand gestures—to communicate vignettes about the mischievous but prominent Hindu god Shiva. Marglin’s intense...
Assuming you've got drive, dreams and skill, is all ambition equal? Is the overworked lawyer on the partner track any more ambitious than the overworked parent on the mommy track? Is the successful musician to whom melody comes naturally more driven than the unsuccessful one who sweats out every note? We may listen to Mozart, but should we applaud Salieri...
...these reasons, people and animals who have an appetite for becoming an alpha often settle contentedly into life as a beta. "The desire to be in a high position is universal," says de Waal. "But that trait has co-evolved with another skill--the skill to make the best of lower positions...