Word: weaknessness
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In an effort to remedy Harvard’s relative weakness in a critical field, Harvard has succeeded in luring a star mathematician away from Stanford University to strengthen its own mathematics department.
Harvard’s aggressive pursuit of Yau, which comes two years after the University’s unsuccessful bid to attract Yau from New York University, stemmed from the recognition of a long-running weakness in the mathematics department, according to Harris and others.
HOSPITALIZED. Françoise Sagan, 50, French novelist and playwright whose shocking first novel about youthful nihilism and passionless hedonism, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), published when she was 18, became an international best seller; in Paris. While on a visit to 8,500-ft.-high Bogotá, Colombia, she collapsed with pulmonary edema...
Keillor is one of the most gifted preachers around today. He entertains by relating simple gospel truths through fictitious stories that cut to the heart. His humor gently peels back the cover of human weakness to the point where it is laughable, lovable, forgivable and redeemable. His lies are the...
When the more experienced reporters of the Times's 120-person Orange County staff compete head-to-head with the greener troops of the Register, the Times stories are usually better written and more analytical. Yet the Times cannot match the Register's coverage of virtually everything in Orange County...