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...Redlands, 15-7, at the Al and Barrie Zesiger Sports and Fitness center.“[This weekend] there have been a lot of good steps,” Harvard coach Eric Farrar said. “We showed that we’ve got the talent, but it’s a question of putting it all together, and we weren’t entirely successful in doing that.”While the Crimson showed flashes of potential, particularly in goal, co-captain Egen Atkinson suggested that Harvard will be able to put more pieces together...
Thanks for your encouraging article on Energy Secretary Steven Chu [Aug. 24]. Knowing that a man of his learning and talent is leading the Department of Energy gives me hope for the future. When major scientists like Chu tell us we are facing a global crisis--one that could be deadly to all life on earth--because of the damage we are doing to the environment, it is time to listen and act. Doug Bridges, COLUMBUS...
...voice, once likened to a "laser beam that can knife through an orchestra," had its technical shortcomings. But her talent as an actress more than made up for her sometimes ragged pitch. "I sing the beautiful parts as beautifully as I can, and if the character is screaming, I make it ugly," she said of portraying Richard Wagner's warrior-goddess Brnnhilde, one of her most memorable roles...
Well, to me it's pretty obvious. The fact of the matter is, [tennis is] now pulling from a worldwide talent pool. We're probably the second biggest sport worldwide, and there's not really a country that's not involved in tennis right now. So with the growth of the game worldwide, the talent is going to be a lot more spread out. I think you're seeing that on a smaller scale with basketball. It used to just be, How much is the American team going to win by? Now the sport has grown so much that...
...that was half-sermon, half economic brief, on the coming green jobs revolution. Next we crossed the bay to San Francisco's gilded city hall, where Jones received an award from the Full Circle Fund, a philanthropic organization founded by Silicon Valley's wealthy. That was Jones's singular talent: his ability to be a human bridge, from gritty Oakland to green San Francisco, all the way to the White House, because he knew that environmentalism could only break out of its niche if it could be made to matter to everyone. (Read Leonardo DiCaprio's take on Van Jones...