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...chosen during the first round. The recent second round yielded in 48 members. Coakley estimated that about 100 more members would be chosen in the upcoming final round. In total, the Phi Beta Kappa members will represent 10 percent of their class. Coakley, also a senior lecturer in Near Eastern languages and civilizations, said that, although some colleges choose their Phi Beta Kappa members solely based on grade-point average, Harvard has a more complex process. Before each election round, the committee contacts the Office of the Registrar and asks for a list of students in descending order of grade...
...title. At a party, they discover their mutual love of tennis, and end up playing in a series of charity tournaments. But between tournaments, Danny somehow manages to lose his gig on a TV show; Gary never really has a job, and handles his unemployment with a kind of eastern “guru-ness” reminiscent of Thomas Haden Church’s well-meaning sidekick character in “Sideways.” Despite its flaws, “Tennis, Anyone?” does have some very clever moments. Maeve Quinlan’s Siobhan...
...gushing reviews come after several years of negotiations in which the Pentagon has sought to pare down its larger presence on bases in Western Europe in exchange for smaller outposts, or a "lighter footprint" as one Pentagon official said, in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. The new bases have the virtue, in Washington's view, of being both more flexible and closer to current hot spots in the Middle East and Central Asia. Romanians are also, for the most part, happy to see more U.S. boots on the ground, which would not be true of U.S. allies in Western...
...Steinmeier tacitly cooperated with the U.S. policy of secret "renditions" by agreeing to remain silent at Washington's behest. A parliamentary investigation could be launched as early as next week. A separate Council of Europe investigation, meanwhile, is looking into claims that the CIA had bases in several eastern European countries...
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