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...search committee searched for a long timeand was unanimously supportive," said Dean of theDivision of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '52."First of all, he has the management skill as wellas a whole range of technical skills. We hope theyboth will play a role...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Computer Service Gets New Director | 4/30/1994 | See Source »

Saying goodbye to members of the phylum Pre-Greedicus can be similarly rewarding. Pre-Greedicus are usually the ones to initiate the departure, and they can do so with varying degrees of abruptness and skill. Here are just a few prototypical goodbyes...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: A Taxonomy of Harvard | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...team's first Super Bowl victory, Jones wrested the championship trophy from Johnson's hand. Troy Aikman was throwing the touchdown passes, and Emmitt Smith was running over defenders. To Jones that was confirmation of his genius as a judge of talent. To Johnson it was affirmation of his skill at devising and executing a perfect strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Will be Boys | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

However, good health and the enormous skill level of Martins propelled him into one of the most exciting players at the college level throughout the 1993-94 campaign...

Author: By David S. Griffel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Martins, McCann Nab First-Team All-America Accolades | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...takes an extraordinary amount of self-confidence to wield a scalpel with skill, but most surgeons never approach the audacity of Dr. Roger Poisson. From 1977 to 1990, the French-Canadian physician falsified data on scores of patients so that he could enroll as many people as possible in important research studies on the treatment of breast cancer. To conceal the deception from the trial's American coordinators, the former head of oncology at St. Luc's Hospital in Montreal kept a double set of medical files labeled "true" and "false." His office even submitted progress reports for one woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breast Cancer: a Diagnosis of Deceit | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

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