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...Harvard women’s basketball team cruised to a 71-57 victory thanks to Moretzsohn’s 8 for 11 shooting from the field. Moretzsohn’s post play opened up the opportunities for her to find these baskets. It is a skill Moretzsohn has worked to enhance during her time at Harvard. The hard work finally paid off on Saturday.In addition. Moretzsohn’s singular performance combined with strong team play lifted the Crimson to its third straight victory and fourth triumph in the Ivies. During Saturday’s tilt against...

Author: By Vincent R. Oletu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moretzsohn Bolts Crimson Up Ivies | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

...Amelia Bedelia’s repeated blunders is pure fictive fantasy: No real-life employer would stand to have their house “dusted” with extra helpings of powder over every available surface. Amelia Bedelia keeps her job by virtue of a valuable non-verbal skill: world-champion baking prowess, which she shrewdly parlays into Mr. and Mrs. Rogers’s favorite dessert, lemon meringue pie. When she’s in trouble, she knows on her own exactly what to do— pop a pastry into the oven—but this is sadly...

Author: By Grace Tiao | Title: 900,000 Amelia Bedelias | 2/4/2007 | See Source »

That's Fox's great skill: he's the homecoming king who's somehow interested in you. Dawson is planning a fishing trip with him. I, for one, am convinced that Fox cares deeply about what music I listen to, even though I own every Billy Joel album and he's good friends with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost's Sensitive Action Hero | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...skill she has mastered,” Tribe wrote, “is the skill of never making the same misstep twice—and the skill of making a dozen inspired moves, moves that elevate the intellectual and emotional qualities of an already electrifying place...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Under Kagan, A Harmonious HLS | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...something FAS sufficiently acknowledges or rewards.“There are a lot of people who care intensely about teaching, but a lot of those same people think the institution doesn’t care,” Skocpol said in an interview last week.Proven skill in teaching is ignored or even stigmatized during FAS performance reviews, according to the report.“Every teaching award earns a warning of how I should not wander off research,” the report quotes an anonymous Ph.D. candidate as saying.Senior professors quoted in the report voiced the same concerns, worrying...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report Affirms Value of Teaching | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

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