Word: successful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great success on Broadway with your one-man show, Freak. Your most recent Broadway show, a revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo ended abruptly after a week-long run. Was it just about ticket sales and the economy...
...That success has drawn international admirers. Parlaying the benefits of innovation and research clusters into cleaning up inner city areas is "smart economically, and sustainably, since densely built cities use less energy and generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions," says Bruce Katz, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Washington-based Brookings Institution. "The revival of older industrial cities in Europe has much to teach their counterparts...
...overwhelmed simply because the task of lowering carbon emissions is so large. Investing some of the endowment in new initiatives or in establishing Harvard as a carbon-tax test scenario obviously won’t solve the problem alone. But just because these efforts have no guarantee of concrete success does not mean they are not worthy undertakings. The entire nation will have to make sacrifices for us to really combat carbon emissions, but it can start at Harvard...
...expected to be deployed to Helmand and Kandahar provinces next spring. They will be fighting under the same limitations as the British, Canadian, Danish and Dutch forces currently holding the fort, which means they will be spinning their wheels. And that raises a long-term question crucial to the success of the Obama Administration: What are we doing in Afghanistan? What is the mission...
House life provides a counterexample to all the things cynics say about Harvard students: that we are neurotic, self-serving, pretentious automatons bent on winning prizes or ruling the world. That we are so concerned with success that we have forgotten how to live. I see none of that mindless careerism in the Christmas lights blinking from the privacy of common room windows, nor in the harried students lingering together over cups of hot chocolate in their dining halls. I see people as grounded as anyone at any other college, people who see each other as more than just stepping...