Word: talented
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...terms of talent and experience, Harvard, Penn and Princeton are the class of the league--the other five teams are really just competing for the middle of the pack," Leonard said...
...sport is this more visible than it is in baseball. The other team sports, so dependent on the careful knitting of disparate talents for every act, never isolate the hero quite the way baseball does--especially when it places him alone in the batter's box and challenges him to perform the most difficult feat in all of sports. Even off the field, the baseball star has always seemed to have a more sharply defined persona than other athletes do. Decades pass, and still we feel we know them. Babe Ruth, the profane if lovable libertine; Mickey Mantle, the gifted...
What's even sadder is the talent wasted. Director Tom Shadyac's other films (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; The Nutty Professor; Liar Liar) are bright, off-kilter farces; scripter Steve Oedekerk wrote Professor. It is a crime against humority that they and Williams (who in a chair next to Letterman is still our most brilliant word surrealist) renounce the work they've practiced with such abandon and invention for Patch's bullying sentimentality. Comics who want to do Hamlet often end up, as here, serving big, sticky slices...
...fact of life at Harvard that people of talent, who duly earn a good reputation for their work with students here, are attractive candidates for major positions at other institutions", Lewis wrote. "That is what happened in this instance...
...this light, it is disturbing that Harvard administrators were so quick to praise the University's performance in the survey. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III called the results a recognition of the University's "commitment to including everyone of talent in the College." But if anything, the rankings show that not everyone of talent enjoys the same level of comfort in the Harvard community...