Word: informant
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Your schedule may promise panels that inform and intrigue, but you’ll have four years to slowly fall asleep to these professors. However, don’t miss the President’s Welcome. This may be the only time you ever get a chance to meet Harvard’s outgoing president, Neil L. Rudenstine who will soon be replaced by the man who signed your dollar bills, Lawrence H. Summers...
Fitzsimmons said another explanation for the record number of applications is the University's extensive recruiting efforts. Over 6,000 alumni around the world write over 60,000 letters encouraging individuals to apply. Recruiters also visited 55 cities to inform prospective applicants...
...Chinese nationals awaiting their swearing-in ceremony as U.S. citizens. But Andrew was born in America, and is already a citizen. His detention, therefore, violated a consular agreement between the U.S. and China to inform each other of citizens' detentions within four days. That explains part of the U.S. outrage. But the case, at least the fourth in the past six years, gave the Bush Administration a welcome chance to put teeth into its proclaimed interest in human rights...
...Chinese nationals awaiting their swearing-in ceremony as U.S. citizens. But Andrew was born in America, and is already a citizen. His detention, therefore, violated a consular agreement between the U.S. and China to inform each other of citizens' detentions within four days. That explains part of the U.S. outrage. But the case, at least the fourth in the past six years, gave the Bush Administration a welcome chance to put teeth into its proclaimed interest in human rights...
...casually realize that part of my grandfatherly duties will be to hold Jessica safe from the news, but the thought is too easy. She will also need to be alert to the news. When she is old enough, I will inform her that I am in the news business--or on the soft edges of it--and she may ask what the news business is. I will tell her that it has to do with knowing and understanding what is going on in the world...