Word: commend
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...addition, Duehay has worked hard to involve Harvard students in, and inform them about, the election. He has knocked on the doors of every registered student voter and has discussed the prominent issues with them. We commend him--as well as Reeves and St. John--for their effort to reach students...
...light of past council performance, we commend the council on a moderately successful fall semester. But much remains to be done...
...women that they are finally beginning to have an equal share in the operation of the University. In the past, The Crimson has called for a woman to be appointed to the seven-member Corporation, which meets every two weeks to make the ultimate decisions on University policy. We commend the University for selecting a woman and for making gender a key consideration during the search...
Such a stroke of honesty is alone enough to commend this good little British picture. But it is almost the least of its virtues. The mobsters force an alcoholic computer engineer named Hiller (played with a wonderfully watery passivity by Bernard Hill) to act as their "bellman," or alarm-system neutralizer. His only virtue is his devotion to his stepson (Kieran O'Brien), who has no name but the one we impute to him: True. He is a wise, sober child, spunky and devoted to the man who takes responsibility for him when both are deserted by the child...
...would like to commend Spencer Hsu for his February 11 editorial on Asian-American admissions. As Hsu astutely observes, it is unrealistic to attribute the disparity between white and Asian-American admissions rates to a deliberate, systematic quota system. Those who look for such a system are not only wasting their time but also draw attention away from the real, subtle problems of discrimination inherent in our universities and other aspects of our society. Such persons make the same faulty and dangerous assumptions as do Harvard University and persons like William Pao, who believe that the absence of specifically anti...