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...mediocrity that plagues "Arms and the Man" lingers in the mind long after the show. George Bernard Shaw's uninteresting play and the actors' lack of skill dashed the production's chances for success. With tedious dialogue and a predictable story line, the viewer spends a lot of time wondering when the performance will...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, | Title: Shaw's Weak Writing Strangles 'Man' | 12/7/1995 | See Source »

...talent to associate, and the final clubs hardly stand as gatekeepers to future social or economic achievement. We've come a long way from the time when Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 identified his greatest failure as getting blackballed from the Porcellian Club. Future success is a product more of skill, dedication, and luck, than connections with wealthy club alumni. And at least that way you don't have to wear drag...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: Members Only, In Drag | 12/6/1995 | See Source »

...most importantly, the Cadets showed about as much skill as Iraq's infantry. Army shot 56.8 percent from the free-throw line--41.2 percent in the first half--and connected on less than 35 percent of its field goals...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Hoop Dreams | 11/29/1995 | See Source »

Ptashne demonstrated his skill with the violin at a party he hosted two weeks ago in his Cambridge home to honor Jannic Nusslein-Vol-hard and Eric Wieschaus. The two German researchers will receive this year's Nobel Prize in medicine in December for their research on the development of fruit-fly embryos...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Professor Finds Beauty In Violins and Viruses | 11/22/1995 | See Source »

...Menzel Professor of Astrophysics David R. Layzer '46 says undergraduate teaching assistants are most valuable in courses that emphasize a specific "skill...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell and Douglas M. Pravda, S | Title: Should Undergraduates Grade Other Students? | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

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