Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admissions and recruitment has been acquired through struggle, everything from getting the program, to making it work, to keeping the program. The hardest struggle, however, has been to get Harvard to adopt fair criteria for Third World people. Harvard has certain "objective" and "subjective" criteria that determine if a person is to be accepted. When applied to Third World students, these criteria show that Harvard thinks America is still the land of the rich and the white...
...person who never comes to visit the former leader is Boumedienne himself. Why then does Algeria's austere second President keep the fallen strongman alive? "A dead Ben Bella would endanger everything," says one of the Invisible One's friends. "He's still a hero to a lot of people in this country. He lost out, but that's no reason to kill him. This isn't Uganda...
...which are as freely available as library stacks. The system was set up by Dartmouth President John Kemeny, who might be called the Mr. Chips of computerized education. Says Computer Consultant John Nevison: "Learning to write a computer program must now be considered part of becoming a liberally educated person." Indeed, educational analysts report that high school students are increasingly choosing colleges on the basis of their computer facilities...
...advantages of being middle-aged," said Dr. Richard S. Foster, the air academy's chief medical officer. How fast this new/old flu will spread among the population at large, however, is unpredictable. It could go on a nationwide rampage within the remaining weeks of winter, or spread slowly, person to person, until next fall's flu season...
Rather like the play, Dudgeon barely escapes the noose. The second act brings on a wittily cynical charmer in the person of General Burgoyne, who is portrayed with silky urbanity by the multi-faceted George Rose. In addition to elongating a happy ending, Shaw has provided Burgoyne with a line worthy of the playwright's fellow Irishman, Oscar Wilde: "Martyrdom, sir, is the only way in which a man can become famous with out ability. " T.E. Kalem