Word: recruited
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...French investigators believe Kamel Daoudi is one such recruit; his tale illuminates both the nature of modern terrorist cells and their global reach. Daoudi was the kind of child that immigrant parents dream of having. The son of Algerians who had immigrated to France, he took the tough post?high school exams a year early and started to study computer sciences at a university in Paris. But he found the courses difficult, and according to reports, a family row exploded in 1999 when Daoudi's father found evidence of his son's appointments with psychiatrists. Daoudi left for Britain...
...despite this rosy picture, some other statistics point to a potentially troubling trend in Harvard athletics. Although roughly 250 students are recruited to play varsity athletics every year, that number steadily decreases over the four years of a given recruit class. For instance, there are currently 256 freshman recruits in varsity sports, 244 sophomores, 229 juniors and 205 seniors. For certain sports, like football, the drop is more dramatic—going from a recruit class of 35 freshmen to only 23 seniors...
...actual method of selection and admission for student-athletes is somewhat complicated and at times difficult to understand. Then again, its goals are clear—to recruit a class of athletes that will be broadly representative of other Harvard students, both academically and socially...
Harvard’s ability to recruit quality athletes who are also intelligent and capable students stems from the recruiting process itself. Harvard football, according to Head Coach Tim Murphy, also has the highest AI average for recruits of any Ivy school. His positional coaches are responsible to covering one-sixth of the country and all together the program considers over 2000 applicants...
Dougherty said he has also tried to recruit individual Boston high schools rather than relying on the library system to advertise to students, but has met with success only at a public charter school...