Word: consisting
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...upper echelons of the federal government consist of dozens of men and women who were drafted from Harvard's faculty and administration, including Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers and even Vice President (and former overseer) Al Gore...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 announced on May 2 his intention to create a committee focusing on women's issues. The committee will consist of 15 individuals who will meet and be addressed by different faculty members or administrators involved or concerned with women's issues on campus. We support the formation of this committee and hope that it will make an impact at the College, focusing more attention toward what women on campus are experiencing. However, we are worried that this committee is just another attempt to appease students at Harvard and that the students...
Alas, when Melrose returns in the fall, the writing team will consist of a doctor, a lawyer, a performance artist and a New York City playwright who has worked on Homicide. That's a high-minded bunch. If we must endure more, Melrose would be wise to poach a few writers from the Simpsons...
...seemed to have a reflexive distrust for institutions and convention and a fear of stifling her children. Jessica did not have dolls but tools. Instead of studying grammar, the children did chores and sought what their mother called "mastery." Boundaries seemed to be off limits, and parenting seemed to consist of cheerleading. "They're getting a tremendous education from having their lives be in the real world," Hathaway had said. "What it takes to get this flight scheduled and done is much better than sitting in a math classroom." Whether or not her children could do long division, they were...
...that it is compromised--and the need for compromise is then denied. The report says that along with individual merit, the applicant's contribution to the whole community is weighed, so that students will be challenged and enriched by being with others unlike themselves. The student body should consist not only of future professors but should comprise in all its "diversity" the future elite (elite is my term, not Rudenstine's). But the question the report ducks is this: Should race be a category in the diversity along with musical, athletic or literary talent, or political ambition, or scientific promise...