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Q&A/The winner of this year’s Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching talks about why clarity is so important, how he learned to accept his own blunders—and why he still gets nervous. When Paul Sniegowski got the call telling him he’d won the School of Arts and Science’s top teaching award for 2005, his mind began reeling. Sniegowski had forgotten all about the award.
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Saturday, May 14 SCHOOL CEREMONIES EDUCATION: Doctoral Hooding Ceremony, 3 p.m., Penn Museum, 3260 South St. FELS INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT: Ceremony and reception at 5 p.m., Fels Institute of Government, 3814 Walnut St. Sunday, May 15 UNIVERSITY-WIDE EVENTS BACCALAUREATE CEREMONY:Speaker: Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of Interfaith Youth Core. 1 and 3 p.m. in Irvine Auditorium, 34th and Spruce sts.
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Ann Miller hoofed it on the silver screen. Gregory Hines tore up the stage in the 1992 Broadway musical, “Jelly’s Last Jam.” Now, today’s greatest tap dancers pay homage to the greatest dancers of the art form in the new Dance Celebration work, “Thank You Gregory! A Tribute to the Legend of Tap,” which runs from May 19 through 21 at the Annenberg Center. The all-star cast of tappers includes choreographer Brenda Bufalino, Tony Waag, who founded the American Tap Dance Orchestra with Bufalino and former “Riverdance” player Karen Callaway Williams (left).
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Jon M. Huntsman still believes in such basic virtues as honesty and integrity. Given the state of American business, he wishes other executives did as well. “We’re taught as children not to cut in line. We’re taught manners,” says Huntsman, Chairman of the Board of Overseers at the Wharton School. “Business doesn’t need to be a cutthroat enterprise. You can be a decent person ... and still be very successful.”