Word: skills
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...spawn of vaudevillians, decide to put on a big show in the barn - serves as inspiration for the bustling, two-week schedule of an Encores! revival. The breathless rehearsal-and-production pace guarantees that performers don't have time to worry their interpretations to death; they rely on skill and intuition. And it helps create an exccitement, an urgency, in the audience. If you happen to be out of town for five days, you could miss it. (That's why my wife and I work our vacations and business trips around the Encores! show dates...
Though Summers and Gross teamed up on the tennis court last month to deal a decisive defeat to two Crimson editors, the dean has had little time to practice his forehand this past year—a year jam-packed with new responsibilities and the exigencies of skill acquisition...
Wright-Swadel argues that 15-20 years down the line, our class will be working in jobs that don’t even exist now. Thus, he says that Harvard students should focus their career planning on building a particular skill set—and not climbing a particular ladder. For him, the question is not “What are you doing after graduation?” but “What are you learning...
Price, retiring after almost 20 years at Harvard, has been serving as associate vice president since 1996. During her time here, she oversaw union negotiations and worked to expand employee education and skill training. Price helped guide changes to the University’s labor policies, working with the recommendations of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies, which former University president Neil L. Rudenstine assembled in response to the Living Wage Campaign’s 2001 occupation of Mass. Hall...
...more of it than any other belligerent. Winston Churchill tendered the U.S. its first gift of time by standing steadfast against the Nazi juggernaut in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz in 1940 and 1941. Thereafter, the U.S. had time in copious abundance, thanks mostly to the skill and cunning of F.D.R.--including, especially, his wily management of relations with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, whose much abused people were plunged into unspeakable woe by the German invasion of June...