Word: tasks
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Feeling like you have a difficult task ahead? Take heart. The uniqueness of Harvard's social system is not all bad. I said before that you are surrounded by people climbing ladders--but they're not all climbing the same one. Each ladder is one-of-a-kind, with its own destination and its own means of getting there. Yes, we follow traditional paths to success, but there are different paths and variations on the definition of success. Look around you. Your classmates are making the same realizations you are. They are learning and growing, finding at the same time...
...Mass. Hall, Harvey V. Fineberg '67 is something of a "shadow president," serving as Rudenstine's top adviser and overseeing a potpourri of projects from information technology to the central administration's finances. The provost is also responsible for fostering academic collaboration among Harvard's nine faculties--a task easier said than done...
Jeremy R. Knowles has served as dean of theFaculty since 1991. In that time, Knowles hasbrought a flair to his task of dealing with abudget crunch and building the ranks of thefaculty...
...Kosovo have been razed. There are no viable livestock or crops. Simply feeding the internally displaced Kosovars will require shipments of 1,000 tons of food daily. Because Serbian authorities destroyed most of the ethnic Albanians' personal records, KFOR and the U.N.'s civilian administrators will face the nightmarish task of sorting out those who have legal claims to land and property. The U.S. hopes to organize and oversee committees of local Kosovars to help U.N. officials coordinate the rebuilding of infrastructure, schools and clinics. But international-aid workers and peacekeepers will have to compete with the K.L.A., which will...
...Stein standing on his sofa. "I fear it," he said, pointing at the orange robot. After Cye mastered the Steinway ("learning" the placement of walls and natural barriers, such as piles of discarded newspapers), I could automatically recall it to my office. From then on, it was a simple task to dispatch Cye whenever necessary. I could even have harassed Stein on the hour by invoking a handy timer function in the software. Satisfied that I'd made my point, though, I stood down...