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...Wagoner was known for being “polite to a fault” and “self-effacing” both during and after his time at Harvard, according to sectionmate David G. Offensend. But in his attempts to reform GM, his proclivity for “understatement?? may have hindered efforts to convince a doubtful public that the company was aggressively moving forward with quality improvements, Wong said. Despite his public pillorying, many of Wagoner’s classmates expressed their affection for the student whom “everybody wanted to be around...
...model to build on with the nascent Harvard Stem Cell institute and the recent creation of the first inter-faculty department.Faust must also deal with a recalcitrant and old-fashioned Faculty of Arts and Sciences. To say that the Faculty is currently in a difficult position would be an understatement??it faces a budget deficit and must implement a new general education curriculum that has largely fizzled. Faust’s leadership is also needed to reinvent pedagogy at Harvard, as the Faculty has been unmotivated by a landmark report on Harvard’s teaching deficiencies...
...It’s not his first time getting adjusted to new surroundings. Calling Kacyvenski’s upbringing difficult is more than an understatement??his mother died before he finished high school and his father was an abusive, though now reformed, alcoholic—and he didn’t exactly grow up expecting to become his college football program’s all-time leading tackler, let alone a Harvard graduate...
...that one expects a Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) show to be over-the-top in every possible way is an understatement??and the production HPT157: Terms of Frontierment does not disappoint those with such expectations. One opening line kindly predicts, “You came here to see a musical.” The song continues, “Well, darling, you’re not in Beacon Hill anymore,” making a reference to both the somewhat alien setting of the show and establishing from the outset the fact that HPT157 is obviously no ordinary...
...need of a place to rehearse rented from the Abbey Lounge what used to be a dingy room full of dart boards, and the space was eventually transformed into the performance space that hosts rock bands of all stripes today. To describe the venue as intimate would be an understatement??the distance between performers and audience has disappeared, and what remains is a joyous, raucous romp through the noise and stage antics of the punk and indie rock bands performing there...
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