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...this is a team that is faster and more powerful—from top to bottom.“Your boat is only as fast as the ninth person on the team,” Bates said. “You can’t rank people, so the strength of your team really depends on everyone performing at their best.”The strength of the team has also come from its added depth. For example, last season at the Head of Charles, the Black and White only raced a varsity four. This year, the team raced...
...Department of Contemporary Art at the MFA, for example, deals with all art made after 1955. While the museum does acquire recent work, the department’s strength is its collection of early 1960s color-field painters...
...vacuum left by the demise of Marxist ideology. In landmark comments earlier this month, China's top religious official, Ye Xiaowen, rejected decades of state ambivalence toward religion by telling the state's Xinhua News Agency that "religion is one of the important social forces from which China draws strength." Ye singled out Buddhism for its "unique role in promoting a harmonious society"-China's catchphrase for promoting social development along with economic expansion. The same week as Ye's comments, the World Buddhist Forum, the first-ever conference on religion in Communist China, convened in the eastern city...
Meanwhile, Andrew D. Gordon ’74, the chair of the history department, last week called the defense of Shleifer on the strength of his academic achievements an “astounding” argument...
...mountainous crescendos, no musical phrase was left incomplete, and no thought left unfinished. Yannatos and HRO exhibited a striking ability to rein themselves in, a habit that not only augmented the more fragile tonalities of the piece but which would also continue throughout the night as a recurring strength of the performance.Yannatos left the stage after the Wagnerian conclusion and returned with violin phenomenon Jackiw. Standing hesitantly next to the ebullient Yannatos, Jackiw appeared almost out of place as the orchestra began to set up the musical canvas, but upon diving into the piece with a dramatic downbow, Jackiw seized...