Asked what evidence Ubani provided, a spokeswoman said: "Competence in English is something that is normally picked up during the application process".
"My father was a mechanical idiot, and I think I developed a competence in mechanical areas because it was something I knew he couldn't do".
First, looking forward, if your aim after the PhD is a faculty position in a Classics Department, then competence in one or both languages is something of a sine qua non.
The queer community's needs were only superficially and inconsistently discussed in our recent Introduction to Cultural Competence course, something that could certainly be enhanced.
As the New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg said yesterday: "Competence is a factor, sometimes hidden, sometimes open, in pretty much every Presidential election... competence is something that the President is showing right now, and Christie is showing it, too".
So too is Mr. Whitacre's competence in managing a complex manufacturing business -- something Alan Mulally of Ford and Sergio Marchionne of Chrysler, also chief executive of Fiat, had proved before heading to Detroit.
And if its restaurant-strength, frosty competence was off-putting, I could find myself open to the overtures of a British manufacturer that offered a more primitive notion of unapologetic domesticity in something called not a stove but a cooker.
Competence is something you can do something about -- you can become smarter and more experienced.
After following him to diners and school gymnasiums across Iowa, I had to admit that there was something seductive in hearing Giuliani tout his own competence, in the certainty he brings to complex challenges.
Students may also see cultural competence in much the same way good communication used to be viewed, as something one either has or doesn't have.
