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...guard-forward duo. The 6’3 Kerr dominated the first half, tallying 12 of her 14 points in the opening period. Her six-point flurry—complemented by a steal and a block—midway through the opening period helped the Women of Troy to surmount the early deficit...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Late Second-Half Collapse Dooms Women's Basketball | 11/30/2004 | See Source »

Which do you prefer: acting from your own direction, directing other actors, or acting from another person’s directions? What is it like to try to surmount the communication barriers between an actor and a director...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...negotiation, but all the things that you do have problems that you have to surmount and sometimes you are lucky and find a way to do it fairly rapidly, and sometimes you stub your toe pushing,” he says. “But ultimately you accomplish whatever you are going to accomplish...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mundheim Shuffles Careers | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...writers’ personal dilemmas are then given to a particular character as a conflict they must surmount in order to reach their goals...

Author: By Sarah J. Murphy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: West Wing Writer Talks TV Politics | 4/30/2004 | See Source »

However, the interplay of these gender advancements with racism and race politics is a far better kept secret. The advancement of women of color within the American workplace and beyond is not a topic of widespread political interest. Professionally, women of color have struggled to surmount impediments to tenure and upward mobility, faced difficulties in creating minority women-owned businesses and entrepreneurial ventures and confronted the problem of being historically cut off from the social networks that enable career expansion and promotion. The specter of sexual assault and rape within the minority community and lack of knowledge about, and treatment...

Author: By Helen O. Ogbara and Angela A. Smedley, S | Title: The Road Less Traveled | 10/15/2003 | See Source »

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