Word: skills
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Filmed with great patience and skill, and accompanied beautifully by a rich, haunting soundtrack, Hereniko’s picture brilliantly captures the tension slowly consuming an island torn between its loyalty to deeply abiding tradition and submission to an ever-encroaching modernism...
Over the next three years, as Summers tested his skill set, those who might have been Harvard University President moved on. Rice was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, and Klausner left the National Cancer Institute for a top spot in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Just this month, Sullivan accepted a prestigious one-year stint as counsel to a top California trial law firm, where she will build an appellate practice before returning to Stanford Law. She is rumored to be favored for a Supreme Court appointment...
...Newman was officially named Man of the Year). But the award was treated as a joke; The Crimson reported on the 1967 Woman of the Year award, saying, “The club is giving Miss [Lauren] Bacall the award ‘in recognition of her great acting skill and feminine qualities...
...women’s collegiate hockey—unlike in men’s—checking in any form is illegal and the rules, in general, emphasize skill over physical strength. Before Ruggiero’s appearance in the CHL, old Crimson teammates and her ex-coach knew that she could compete on a professional level with men, but they were nervous about the physical intensity of the game...
...much emotion involved, I think you get everybody’s best performance,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “It really narrows the gap between X’s and O’s, between any kind of strategy. Even skill to a certain point is brought closer together because emotions are so high...