Word: skills
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...this year, we have lost about 75 percent of our team because of costs.” The Department of Athletics, which did not respond to requests for comment, devotes most of its attention and funding to varsity athletics. The many undergraduates who lack either the time or the skill to compete at a varsity level, but who nonetheless seek the benefits of being on a sports team—in the past, an estimated 900 students—may find it difficult to do so because of Harvard’s failure to foster a strong club sports program...
...organization—but it has maintained a high quality of performance in its spring show, “Bravura and Blues.” With a throng of new, talented freshmen, the greatest triumph of the HBC’s latest recital is its demonstration of impressive technical skill on pointe...
...veteran, goes head to head against Gosling, Hollywood’s new “it” boy and 2007 Best-Actor Nominee for “Half Nelson,” as each tries to one up the other. Hopkins plays his role with his usual skill and control, delivering each line with just the right inflections and matching calm, pensive expressions. Perhaps typecast as an intellectual killer, he harks back to his portrayal of cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs.” But he also adds subtle layers...
...FANTASY FILM, THE VILLAIN OFTEN NEEDS TO look very ugly or old or outr. That depends on the skill of the makeup-effects artist--and the patience of the actor. "Putting on the makeup and the fangs took four hours," says Grace about his Spider-Man 3 rig. "Then another 45 minutes to put on the suit--and you can't go the bathroom in it, which is a problem they still haven't solved after three of these films...
...country, however, means Clinton will have to spend far less time in the Senate, a move that, aides say, she had hoped to put off until later in the election season, considering she was just reelected to a second term last fall. Clinton's Senate record - and particularly the skill she has shown working across party lines - has been her answer to those who say she is too polarizing to be elected. But as former majority leader Bob Dole and others have learned, the chamber isn't an ideal base from which to run a Presidential campaign...