Word: prowess
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Also, I spoke to the coach of the U.S. Olympic handball team on the phone last night. It does not look like that’s going to happen. Apparently, as with all the other Olympic sports, handball requires a combination of natural prowess, unyielding self-discipline and ruthless competitive spirit. I have (Coach informed me) maybe one, probably none of those things...
...power to intimidate the highest ranking members of the junta derives from his intellectual prowess. One of the founders of the opposition National League for Democracy, he was viewed by many as the party's chief strategist, as well as a mentor for Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who is in her 13th year of house arrest for leading Burma's ongoing pro-democracy movement. The generals believed he "was my puppet master," Suu Kyi once wrote of Win Tin. Bo Kyi Win of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners in Burma, a Thailand-based exile...
...unofficial gatekeeper: the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, whose MacArthur Fellowship is widely known as "the genius grant." (The foundation, which was created in 1978 and which annually distributes nearly $300 million in grants, avoids using the term, as it incorporates only "a singular characteristic of intellectual prowess" that doesn't reflect their recipients' assorted talents...
...credentials. Di Pasquale is, in many ways, the ultimate representative of a Harvard culture obsessed with self-promotion. There really is no more perfect monument to grade-grubbing, fellowship-applying, e-recruiting Harvard than a student standing naked on Weeks Footbridge wrapped in text lauding his academic accomplishments, athletic prowess, and hot bod. So Matt di Pasquale, I salute you. As your magazine’s cover proclaims, “It’s your time to shine.” Daniel E. Herz-Roiphe ’10, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a social studies concentrator...
...beautiful game often cruelly flatters to deceive. In a sport in which even the slightest error becomes terrifically magnified, a team that shows the spirit and offensive prowess to truly knock back its opponent can often be punished for that very same tenacity.At the University of Rhode Island (URI) Soccer Complex last night, the Harvard men’s soccer team (2-2) was that squad.Ninety-one minutes of attacking verve—replete with 65-percent possession and 14 total shots—came undone in the second minute of the extra period when URI substitute forward Erkko Puranen...