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...keeping the game fun and really pushing the players at the same time,” Fusco agrees.He also praises Cleary’s ability to leave players to themselves to an extent, rather than trying to control or change the way they played.“He recruited skilled players and let those players play,” Scott Fusco says. “A lot of coaches don’t do that.”As Harvard Men’s Ice Hockey Coach today, Donato says he looks up to Cleary and his remaining influence...
...Sorrentino's inspiration is the Grimm tale of Rumpelstiltskin, the dwarf whose skill as a tailor (he could spin straw into gold) ensnared a greedy miller and his beautiful young daughter. Here the miller is a middle-class man over hid head in debts for the wedding of his daughter Rosalba (glamorous, poised Laura Chiatti). Geremia lends the family more money than they can afford to pay and then, on the wedding day, extracts from Rosalba his own predatory pound-of-flesh interest on the loan...
...Your story said first-generation Asian-Americans were able to blend into American society because of their high education and skill levels. They also possess a quality I call achievement orientation. Most Asian migrants to the U.S. left their homelands in search of a better quality of life not only for themselves but particularly for their children. They worked hard to achieve their dreams. Their goal was to excel in whatever they did. The second generation has assimilated into multicultural American society. The children of Asian migrants are at home in the U.S., and many of them will outdo their...
...would the U.S.'s top medical school ask its students to spend valuable time trailing a patient instead of a doctor? At Harvard and other medical schools across the country, educators are beginning to realize that empathy is as valuable to a doctor as any clinical skill. Whether it's acknowledging that a patient was inconvenienced by having to wait an hour before being seen or listening when someone explains why he didn't take his meds, doctors who try to understand their patients may be the best antidote for the widespread dissatisfaction with today's health-care system...
...right arm and sent me to Germany three days later, giving me a generally favorable impression of military medicine. But from my end of the gurney, I had little idea about what was happening around me. HBO's spotlight on the 68th Combat Support Hospital fully assays the skill, bravery and humanity of my caregivers, and goes a long way to explain why the survival rate among U.S. combat casualties has reached an historic peak in the Iraq conflict...