Word: anoint
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...affairs is the brutally demanding time commitment that any one extracurricular activity has come to require. Students just don't have enough free hours to accomplish many different things. This reality absolves most of us, but it does not entirely excuse those who are currently asking us to anoint them our leader. Yes, it would take someone truly extraordinary to have earned the admiration of the college's many different communities. But shouldn't the man or woman who represents Harvard's student body be at least marginally extraordinary...
...honor, which is intended not to anoint an institution as the best but rather to highlight admirable characteristics or programs other colleges might emulate, goes this year to the University of Southern California. Through one of the oldest and most extensive "service learning" programs in the country, U.S.C. has integrated its students and its academic programs into the community that surrounds its Los Angeles campus. Not only do more than half of U.S.C.'s students volunteer to work in the poorer neighborhoods near their school, but students in courses ranging from landscape architecture to dentistry also apply their knowledge toward...
...Justice Department official told the Associated Press, but the official did say that Starr?s aides were asking about whether Justice, after all this time on the sidelines, would be interested in taking over an unfinished case (it isn?t). And ABC News reported Tuesday that Starr would simply anoint a new leader ? and in fact has three successors in mind already...
...about policy--the kind of intellectual stroking that fund raisers don't normally get. And Bush's team set out to pull in a whole new cadre, people who hadn't been interested in politics before because it was an old man's game, who had watched the Democrats anoint the baby boomers in 1992 while the G.O.P. grayheads fumbled. As Bush told a fund raiser in the fall of 1997, "If I do something, I'd like to have my friends who have some campaign experience around me. It's not going to look backward. I don't want...
...DEMOCRACY The victors of the cold war will judge your case, and they are disposed to anoint only noncommunist, nonauthoritarian believers in multiparty elections and the free market. That pretty much queers the prospects of religious-based Chechnya and most African separatists. The Kosovars' lack of civil institutions and political structures makes them a premature candidate...