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...romping down the sidelines. To avoid destruction, Staubach goes to ground with a hook slide that would do a major league base runner proud: "My instincts resist it, but the coaches instilled it in me. The more experience I have, the less I have to run, because my real asset is reading defenses and throwing to the right receiver...
Despite the athletic paraphernalia, the club's most prized asset may be its library, a 25,000-volume, six-room affair with a large rare-book collection and the largest collection of Harvardiana outside of Cambridge...
...wobbling dollar, but a more cheerful and indeed more bankable asset: Kermit the Frog. He is the gallant and slightly desperate master of ceremonies of a weekly eruption called The Muppet Show, which in its third season on the air has become what is almost certainly the most popular television entertainment now being produced on earth. The Muppet series is seen by at least 235 million people in 106 countries. Those who have not met Kermit will ask, in thank-you-not-today tones, "A frog?" And they will ask, "Adult?" The answer to the first question is a confident...
...colleague describes Ohira's party role as "the lubricating oil that smoothed things out." His ability to mediate was to become his main political asset. "Confrontation is a waste of energy," he has said. "A little give and take is much more efficient in politics...
...provided. The Dramat hires a technical supervisor from the graduate school. The Dramat hires its own directors and often these are also pulled from the school. The repertory members do not actively supervise. However, as deButts agrees, having a professional company around, if only for occasional advice, is an asset. "We don't have any formal contact, but if we want something we can go talk to them." Nevertheless, deButts points out, a professional company is mostly busy "being professional...