Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three of the leading candidates fit a number of the criteria that the search committee described in a letter to students and alumni earlier this year--respected scholarship, administrative skill and Harvard ties. But so do most of the other candidates, and no candidate is perfect. In fact, each of the candidates currently under consideration has drawbacks...
From kindergarten to high school, I was spoon-fed the proper "Arab" account of the "Arab"-Israeli conflict by teachers--mostly Palestinian and Jordanian--whose lectures, I realize in retrospect, were nothing but biased diatribes lacking even a hint of objectivity. No one disapproved. It fit well into the Pan-Arab framework...
...soldiers are older (average age: 27, compared with 21 in Vietnam) and better trained than the troops of past wars. More than 95% of last year's recruits had graduated from high school, in contrast to 54% a decade ago, and they are more physically fit. "I hate the new Army," says a sergeant as he tries to bum a cigarette. "Nobody smokes...
...notes Matthew Meselson, a professor of biology at Harvard, "shell for shell, there were more deaths from conventional munitions." Only about 5% of the Iranians gassed by the Iraqis died; the figure might have been even lower if all the Iranians had been beardless, thus allowing for a tight fit of their gas masks...
Perhaps the case would be hazier if all of these groups were using College funding for the overseas trips. But the restrictions even apply to independent groups with no College aid. The members of these organizations should obviously be able to spend that money as they see fit...