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...next hurdle to surmount after AI consideration is what Harvard calls the “broken leg test.” It means exactly what it sounds like—how would a recruit take advantage of Harvard’s other opportunities if she were to break her leg. “Will this person be good in a seminar, with a professor, in a dining hall?” asks Fitzsimmons. “Will this person grow? We don’t sign people to contracts to play field hockey.” To find...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Keeping Score | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

...have faith in the process, in what we are trying to do,” he said. “I ask you to believe that we can surmount problems of implementation...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Getting to the Core of the Matter | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...died in a storm now known as the "1996 disaster." But I had prepared for 16 years, learning to feel my way up mountainous terrain using ice axes and long poles. I finally concluded that when other people's expectations become barriers, the best thing to do is to surmount them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hillary and Tenzing's Bootprints | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...stay close in the early rounds of the meet, tying the contest 6-6 after four matches. But five straight Penn victories made the score 25-6, a Quaker lead too large even for Jantzen—who scored a technical fall in the second period—to surmount...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling Continues To Struggle on Road | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...human failings, especially greed, mean that this ideal, plus other sensible scriptural instructions, can be interpreted as one wants. For example, killing is bad, except during war or self-defense, and you can always declare war. Abraham may be a link between religions, but we will never surmount the lowest common denominator of the seven original sins. MURRAY HUNTER Auckland, New Zealand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 28, 2002 | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

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