Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Developing such an ethical and diverse class isno easy process, however, and preparation for thenext year's applications and admissions policiesbegins months ahead of time during the summer. Thegoal is to attract as many applicants as possible,and the process involves dividing the nation andeven foreign territories into subcommittees whichare responsible for recruiting students from theirrespective regions. Though most admissionsofficers have graduated from college, some HarvardRadcliffe undergraduates help to recruitinterested minority students from around thenation...
Occasionally the officers ask students toresubmit various parts of their applications, inorder to facilitate the decision process. Becausethe various committees and subcommittees are knownto debate applicants for days at a time, extrainfomation, such as another essay or secondsemester grades can make a significant differencein helping narrow the semi-definite acceptee groupto a specific number per region...
...while many applicants will inevitably endup disappointed, they have at least one reason tobe happy--the process of applying is over. For theAdmissions Office, though, the whole arduousprocedure starts up again.The pathway to...Harvard...
...they set out to find the perpetrator of her rape, staying out past curfew, midnight, in hopes of shooting the military official. Vera and Torre must hide in bushes from the armored patrol cars that roam the streets with a license to kill anything that moves, and in the process they revive their relationship of years before. They also discuss the inner conflicts--Torre torn between her aristocratic heritage and her love for her people, and Vera confused between his distance from Chile and his desire to help...
...China, traveling by bus and train and plane, I got a few tantalizing glimpses of the changes which are sweeping Chinese society. I was functionally illiterate in the country--even street signs were incomphrehensible--and I used special money for foreigners that insulated me yet further from the normal process of commercial intercourse in China...