Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, law review members are not necessarily the "best and the brightest" at Harvard Law School, much less in the country. Only one-fourth of the class even completes the writing competition required for membership. Many others are simply uninterested in being on Law Review...
Persephone, whose membership includes students from Boston area colleges, is the only organization of its kind in New England, says Pennie Decas, fundraising coordinator for the Boston branch of Cooley's Anemia Foundation...
...Student membership is absolutely invaluable, ahelp to the whole process," said Professor ofAstronomy and of the History of Science Owen J.Gingerich '53, who has served...
Despite the conservative backlash, though, recent intellectual purges have been relatively mild when compared with past excesses. Liu Binyan, a leading journalist who was stripped of Communist Party membership in January for questioning its authority, remains a vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association. Liu has further confounded the hard-liners by retaining his post as a reporter for the People's Daily, the official Communist Party paper. Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, dismissed as a university vice president in January, was promptly reassigned to a research job. Such moves have helped reassure China watchers that there is no second Cultural Revolution...
Bakker, meanwhile, has resigned not only from PTL but from the ministry of the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination (membership: 2.5 million) based in Springfield, Mo.; he remains on the clergy rolls pending the church's own investigation of the scandal. Dortch has also resigned as an Assemblies minister because the PTL congregation has become independent of the Assemblies. Meeting with Falwell in California last week, Bakker pleaded with the Virginia preacher to assume the chairmanship of PTL's board. Falwell, who is already fully preoccupied with politics, pastoring and his own struggling cable-TV network, said...