Word: transformation
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...Harvard’s new basketball coach Tommy Amaker has raised red flags over the potential bending of recruiting rules and admissions standards. And so, President Faust, in your input toward selecting Orleans’s successor, we urge you to opt not for a candidate seeking to transform the Ivy League into some pale imitation of the Big Ten. We urge you, rather, to support an candidate who respects the role of athletics in the context of the greater college experience. While we take pride in the accomplishments of our classmates on the field...
...Abdullah maintains that he has "forgotten" all about Anwar, preferring instead to outline a vision of several "economic-growth corridors" that he says will transform the manufacturing and service sectors. (One corridor happens to run through Abdullah's hometown, Kepala Batas.) The PM points to rising rural incomes as proof that his economic policies are working. Placating farmers is particularly important given that rural Malaysia is the National Front's core constituency. And even in the urban areas, Abdullah's renowned blandness could actually help him. "The thing about him is that no one hates him," says Liew Chin Tong...
...Business School, the players will return home for four weeks to research their own business idea. The players will then return to campus and present their ideas to each other in small working groups, according to Roberts. “We’re not going to transform them in the space of six or seven days,” Roberts said. “But the program gives them a sense of [what’s] possible, and that, given the application of some time and analysis, they can get some better insight for the kinds of business ideas...
...think, something to do with America. I talked to Miss Dirty Martini after the show, and she told me that burlesque was an American folk art, the dance equivalent of jazz. There was something mesmerizing about the ability of these performers to transform the act of taking off their underwear into an event. It wasn’t just the shock of the nudity. I had assumed that hidden panels of Velcro would enable a dramatic baring of all available assets. Instead, each of the three burlesque performers shimmed their panties over their hips with a prolonged, deliberate awkwardness. They...
...educate to transform...