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Sophomore guard Drew Gellert showed off amazing defensive skill from the tip-off, constantly frustrating star Penn guard Michael Jordan--no relation to His Airness. However, Harvard switched to a zone midway through the first half and Jordan was able to break free from Gellert to finish the first half with 13 points...
Online dating also puts a premium on verbal fluency, another bygone romantic skill. The sonneteers competed to shower their ladies with flowery metaphors and witty images; online suitors are also obliged to charm. "The written word promotes people talking about themselves without the self-consciousness of how do I look, how am I dressed," says Andrea Baker, a sociologist at Ohio University. She sees the Internet as a haven for the shy, the tongue tied and the thoughtful. "You have the chance to think about what you say and revise what you say and add to what you say." Also...
...informality meant that I could wander along from match to match too, deciding which of the fast-paced contests caught my eye. For someone who has never seen a squash match before, I was impressed with the speed of the matches, and I finally saw the actual skill level of the famed Harvard Crimson...
Winning the start-up game requires a spark of creativity, skill with computers, long hours and dedication. It's hard to be a student and a mogul at the same time...
...tinker with scraps of this and that in his spare time when he wasn't working as a carpenter, house painter, cement mixer and ironworker. But it was only in 1980, when he found himself unemployed at age 52, that he began to pour all his time and accumulated skill and experience into his creations: powerful depictions of human relationships--"pictures about the future of life and the struggle we've been through"--wrought from roots, animal carcasses, discarded wire, rope, tin, wood, carpet, plastic and house paint. Despite his compulsion to create, Dial had always been shy about...