Word: breaches
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...perceive a similar breach of the proper bounds of affirmative action in the unprecedented second-round admissions search targeted specifically at potential African-American applicants. The search was an instance of Harvard simply trying to change its numbers artificially rather that level the procedural playing field. It was not targeted specifically towards disadvantaged Black students, but just any and all Black students. Harvard should try to recruit more, and recruit earlier, in the minority community, but it ought not to waive deadlines. Although we recognize the difficulty Harvard has in attracting qualified minority applicants, we expect the Office of Admissions...
...swearing-in, she pulled out her boom box and plugged it into an outlet not far from the portrait of George Washington. Instantly a stern White House functionary informed her, "We've never had music in the Oval Office." Only the President, it was decided, could approve such a breach in decorum. "Sure," said Clinton, and Eric Clapton's album Unplugged began to fill the room. A Secret Service agent remarked to a colleague, "I told you we were gonna miss the other...
...head their new Office of Alternative Medicine. The office was created last year under pressure from a Congress alarmed by the soaring costs of high-tech healing and the frustrating fact that so many ailments -- AIDS, cancer, arthritis, back pain -- have yet to yield to standard medicine. In the breach, Americans have turned with growing enthusiasm to an array of unorthodox remedies, including hypnosis, biofeedback, homeopathy, acupuncture and herbs. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, a third of the population today consults alternative healers, shelling out nearly $14 billion a year for their services. Most is ^ paid...
...moved up here because I did not want to spend the next however many years of my life trying to get some job in Washington," he says. "I just have a very happy life here." But high office -- National Security Adviser is often mentioned -- may breach his idyll anyway...
...leading my class at a nationally ranked recovery clinic.") Then a top speechwriter would embellish the confession, and a media consultant would orchestrate the requisite appearance on Geraldo. But all this high-priced talent could not alter reality -- a broken campaign promise is still a breach of trust. Lies are still lies. The trick is knowing how to recognize them...