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...that I couldn’t promise anything.” So he joined the team with seemingly dim hopes of ever playing a meaningful match. Though his play was not the prettiest to watch, once on his coaches’ radar Denenberg had the opportunity to showcase his drive: a most important trait, but the toughest to recruit. And showcase it he did, often to the point of distancing himself from his teammates. “I didn’t get along with my teammates the first year,” Denenberg said. “I always...
...you’re at all like me, your instinctive drive for success, your passion for competition, and your yearning for invaluable work experience are the reasons you are searching for a summer job. Or the fact that your parents have threatened to cut you off if you don’t get off your lazy butt and make something of yourself because they are “sick and tired” of watching you waste your summer watching reruns of Full House while eating mounds of SpaghettiOs. Either way, if you want to score a summer internship...
...gave us upward social mobility, and it gave us teenagers with butt implants. It gave us Manifest Destiny and reality TV. But it is part of what defines us. Maybe Smith made people uncomfortable because she crassly, gluttonously embodied ideals that are familiar, even celebrated, in American culture: determination, drive and the faith that the good are rewarded materially. "I think heaven's a beautiful place," she told Los Angeles magazine in 1994. "Gold. You walk on gold floors...
...With demand for electricity in Australia expected to double by 2050, the way it is produced will have to change. A report to the Prime Minister last December on nuclear power, by former Telstra chief Ziggy Switkowski, estimated that the additional electricity-producing capacity to drive the nation at mid-century will need to use technology with near-zero greenhouse gas emissions (to keep emissions from this sector at today's levels). The Task Group is now taking submissions from the community and will report to the P.M. by the end of May. "Given the scale of the challenge faced...
...awkwardness in the presence of their lifestyle of tennis and hors d’oeuvres. As the narrator grows older, she becomes more contemplative, and her exploration of her identity subtly becomes the main focus. Her fascination with the lives of her forebears is another facet of her drive to understand, to trace back attitudes about work and impractical dreams as far as possible to see how they change and how they stay the same.Although the collection clearly has its weaknesses, Munro is exceptionally strong when she is working with the engrossing material of her own life. Her wonderful gift...