Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students who did not get into their first three choices were placed into the random pool, consisting of Houses not filled by the first part of the lottery. Students in the random pool received assignments through new lottery numbers in a process that ranks the Houses in alphabetical order...
...preface to One L Turow wrote, "I should say once, forthrightly, that I am proud to be a student at Harvard Law School ... I'm sure that much of this book bespeaks that pride, but I make this declaration in order to ensure that my occasional criticism of HLS will not be misunderstood..." Asked to comment on that pride, in the light of the book's fairly extensive criticisms of the Law School, Turow offers several explanations. "I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side...
...weeks. And because my grandmother is a Syrian Jew, it's delightfully exotic food--stuffed grape leaves, soups with unpronouncable names and apricot desserts. But the food aside, visiting the relatives is part and parcel of the vacation ordeal. The same recital of courses and social life is in order, with the exception that my grandmother cannot quite accustom herself to my unmarried status. She asks curiously, "How's your boyfriend?" "Fine, Gramma." "Are you getting married?" "Nooo, Gramma!" Then she concedes magnanimously that I can wait until after I graduate--preferably the day after--to marry...
...White House for three months, and making no obvious overture to the miners except threatening to cut off their food stamps--the only way many miners made it through one of the harshest winters the coalfields had ever known--Carter stumbled to action only ten days ago. His order of a Taft-Hartley injunction only angered and bewildered the UMWA, leaving many miners muttering John L. Lewis's 1943 offer in a similar situation: "Let them dig coal with bayonets." Tacitly disregarded by the UMWA, perhaps more than anything else the injunction strengthened the resolve of the membership to stay...
Library officials are instituting the new procedure on an experimental basis in order to obtain samples of the hand-writings of the people using the library, which is the main library of the Harvard Divinity School, Woodbury said, adding that library officials will compare the list of signatures to those on the threatening notes...