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Yeltsin's rapport with audiences is as instinctive with socialites in Chicago as it is with construction workers in his native Sverdlovsk. That remarkable skill constitutes a breakthrough in an unwritten, decades-old rule of Soviet politics that inhibits leaders from relating emotionally with their audiences. If a speaker connects, after all, the implication is that the views of the audience count, that persuasion is involved, that the audience, heaven forbid, actually has something to communicate back to the stage. Yeltsin has tapped the desperate yearning of Russians to be taken seriously by their leaders, to be spoken to rather...
They also praise his skill at administration. While provost, Rudenstine was in charge of academic development and budget recommendations, as well as long-range financial planning...
During its first pre-season tournament at William and Mary two weeks ago, the Crimson's strengths and weaknesses were quickly discovered. According to Rifaat and Clark, the Crimson will try to capitalize on their overall team speed to make up for any lack of skill. Basic skills, positioning and the fast break will be the focus of the team's practice energy...
Classics players also concede that skill isn't the only criterion for making the club...
...underlying reference in the above editorial, in case you didn't get it, is to the late Robert Mapplethorpe. Just because he took six photographs of the piss-in-your-neighbor's-mouth variety, the argument goes, people shouldn't fail to recognize the remarkable quality and skill he demonstrated in his other work. Neither should the myriad of high-quality, unoffensive artistic specimens he provided be banned...