Word: preferred
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After reading Emily Carrier's profoundly insightful article, "Black First-Years Prefer Quad Houses" (March 9, 1994), I felt in necessary to express my thanks for your enlightening and informing me about the state of racial diversity at Harvard...
...prefer to see representatives or groups thanto try to distill the concerns of 6,600 studentsby random sampling," he says. "I do ,of course,see quite a lot of the Dean of the College[Jewett] and the Dean of the UndergraduateEducation [Buell], who routinely see more studentsthan...
Would a young Barbra Streisand make it big in show business today? The question is not as stupid as it sounds. Much to the annoyance of baby boomers, their kids often prefer rapping to singing and consider rhythm and riffs more important than melody. And dowdy Broadway, the birthplace of Streisand's fame, is not producing pop stars these days. To the MTV generation, a videogenic image can count more than musical talent...
...because theses show more original work, are we not unfairly penalizing students whose roommates' problem set solutions may be equally original? Clearly, such a policy, and the policy of preventing students from copying other students' theses itself, are very stifling and inherently unfair, especially to those students who prefer to hand in assignments with answers that they obtained in a more "creative" fashion than most. Dave Tabak...
...CNOs who came before, Boorda, a high school dropout, never attended the Naval Academy. As the Navy personnel chief from 1988 to 1991, he drafted a plan that allowed the Navy, unlike other services, to shrink dramatically without firing personnel. But an Administration official said Saturday that Clinton might prefer to keep Boorda in his sensitive Naples post, where he has been planning the possible NATO bombing campaign against the Serbs. If so, the next CNO is likely to be Admiral Charles Larson, the Pentagon's Pacific commander -- a Naval Academy graduate who would be the fourth submariner...