Word: strength
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Resulting from its ability to ingratiate and inform is the greatest strength of the Boston Jewish Film Festival--the example set for other ethnic groups in the redefinition of "community." Community is a term quite liberally flung around, and in terms of multiculturalism, it often appears that community is composed solely of people of that ethnicity. If you aren't African-American or Italian or Jewish, you can't possibly understand the needs and intricacies of a particular group, so you might as well not even try--this is the self-defeating implication of the current exclusion of other groups...
Things got slightly worse with the great C minor Nocturne, Op. 48, at a tempo that sapped its strength. This is one of the few performances I can think of where the chordal middle section was actually more interesting than its famous neighbors. The left hand would disappear and reemerge at odd, disjunct moments, and there was no sense of heightening at the return of the first theme in its slick new clothes...
Rakow, who was named International Young Woman of the Year in Public Affairs by Zonta, an international service organization, stressed that women can equal men in physical strength, despite biological differences between the genders...
Rakow also explained some of the trends in women's physical fitness today. These range from women at West Point find alternative methods of climbing walls--relying on their strong pelvic bones rather than upper body strength--to the fact that women are approaching the achievement levels of men in sports such as running...
...speech] was great," said Michael A. Rosen '99. "[Physical strength] is one aspect of gender difference you don't get to hear about much. You usually hear about social differences. [The idea that all women can be as strong as men] is definitely an interesting argument...