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...choice seems to be a deliberate mockery of the ordinary criteria for choosing commencement speakers. Neither Click nor Clack is a Nobel laureate; neither is a major world leader; neither an august academic. Why, then has one of the world's greatest universities chosen them? Well, probably because both of them are something you, with all due respect, are not reputed to be: funny...
Duehay presided over the creation of the Open Space Acquisition fund for which $2.5 million has been identified to purchase land under threat of development. More recently, the Green Ribbon Open Space Committee was formed by the council in order to establish criteria for acquiring these kinds of property...
Flooded with requests to stop development, and realizing that it cannot react quickly enough to these crises, the council has established the forward-looking Green Ribbon Open Space Committee. This will establish criteria for the prioritization of properties that the council wants to purchase...
They also considered each candidate's maritalstatus, the relationship between the potentialmaster and co-master, and whether the candidatehad children, although all involved say none ofthese criteria were a determining factor...
...promote this?'" cautions Tristine Rainer, founder of the Center for Autobiographic Studies in Pasadena, Calif. Your memoir is marketable, according to Rainer, if it provides a glimpse into a unique world, reflects the social issues of a larger group or is just great writing. Even if you meet these criteria, convincing a publisher means sending out scores of query letters and bracing for the rejections...