Word: fittingly
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Such evaluations, the student's background, andpersonal qualities all contribute to whetheradmissions officials decide one student and notanother will fit their vision for a Harvard class.But this vision has changed dramatically atHarvard in the last 30 years from a predominantlywhite, male Northeastern student body to anethnically and nationally diverse one. And theStonecypher complaint may be the first flashpointin the ongoing story of Harvard's admissions'campaign to keep its reputation as one of the mostdiverse campuses in the country
Such evaluations, the student's background, andpersonal qualities all contribute to whetheradmissions officials decide one student and notanother will fit their vision of a Harvard class...
...four new hired guns will fit in nicely into a solid group of returning starters. Last year's star freshmen Kate Roiter and Kelly Granat, one and three seeds respectively, are back and ready...
...single-handedly lured 35 companies to the lake area since 1987 -- 30 of them from Southern California. His technique is so simple it would make an M.B.A. blanch. Potter flips through the Southern California Business Directory and Buyers Guide, finds small-to-medium-size firms that seem to fit, and calls them up cold to ask whether they would let him prepare a state-vs.- state comparison for them -- at no cost. Most agree. "And when we do that, Idaho usually comes out the winner compared with Southern California. It's a no-brainer," says Potter...
...greater challenge was to stay mentally fit. He found comfort in recollections of Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler's classic novel about a prisoner locked in solitary confinement. After a while he began to reconstruct his own life story, then slowly recite, out loud, each heavily detailed chapter. "This is the verbal autobiography of Harvey Weinstein, aged 6," he intoned as he conjured up the memories of his first-grade teacher and long- forgotten classmates. Sometimes, however, the horror of his predicament got the best of him, and he cried out for his captors to kill him and leave...