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...with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk or a headstrong toddler starting to talk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, around the start of middle or junior high school, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers. For the parents of such kids, whose...
Perched on a bare stage with a lone microphone, Gordon sprinkles his arguments with epigrams and political puns—a skill he says he picked up while earning his master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government in the early...
...Bill Clinton was not fit to be President. A conservative who is far enough to the right so that friends jokingly say he ''could be a staff adviser to Rush Limbaugh,'' Jackson has demonstrated an astute understanding of how the media works -- and how it can be manipulated. That skill served him well two weeks ago, when he refused to allow Patterson and Perry to speak with the Associated Press after they had talked to the American Spectator and the Los Angeles Times. He told the A.P. that he ''felt we needed the national TV hammer at this time...
...think he’s going to be a guy that puts up big numbers for us this year.” “There were times last year,” the coach added, “when he was unstoppable with his speed and skill.’ Donato looked like a genius during Saturday’s season opener, a 6-2 win over traditional league powerhouse Dartmouth. Du led the way with two goals and two assists, weaving through the Big Green’s defensive corps like it was standing still...
...evening’s program included an oration by Dean of the Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and a showcase of the virtuoso skill of piano soloist Wei-Jen Yuan ’06, before finally allowing the orchestra to come into their own. Under the direction of Dr. James Yannatos, the HRO passionately performed popular but stylistically diverse orchestra favorites, including Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1,” and Igor Stravinsky?...