Word: appointed
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Dean Daniel C. Tosteson said in a December letter to Harvard doctors that he will appoint a small committee of senior faculty members to help him develop procedures to prevent fraud...
...very aggressive in recruiting minority professors," Georgetown Dean Pitofsky adds. Georgetown, with four minority professors, is regarded as one of the best in its willingness to appoint minorities to its law school faculty...
...Senate Judiciary Committee. Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, the man conservatives love to hate, opted to take over leadership of the Labor and Human Resources Committee, so the Judiciary Committee chairmanship will fall to Biden. Under Democratic rule, the panel will inevitably give the President a difficult time on judicial appointments. In the past year, even with a Republican majority, the committee helped defeat the district-court nomination of right-wing Ideologue Jefferson Sessions and waged tough fights against the nominations of Daniel Manion to the Seventh Circuit Appeals Court and William Rehnquist to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Moreover...
Signs of deep-seated skepticism toward the balloting were widespread. Some Haitians complained that the Port-au-Prince government, which will appoint the 20 other commission members, had not sufficiently publicized the elections -- or the candidates. In Lilavois, a polling official was seen sleeping with his head on a voting registry...
California conservatives are loathe to waste such an opportunity to spread their revolution into the judiciary. The Right has spared no expense in a campaign to oust the Court's three most liberal Justices, knowing that their defeat will enable Republican Governor George Deukmejian to appoint new, conservative Justices and thereby shift the ideological balance of the Court...