Word: recruited
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...Qaeda threat in Yemen is real, but now after this operation, it will be greater," says Mohammed Quhtan, a member of Yemen's opposition Islamist al-Islah party. "Al-Qaeda will be able to recruit a lot more young people, at least from the tribes that were hit. And it will have reasonable grounds to attract more people from Abyan governorate, and from the Yemeni population in general...
Notre Dame's brainy standards are a big reason it can no longer recruit as many blue-chip players. Even so, diehard Irish fans argue it's important to the student-athlete ethos that top schools be able to compete in Division I football. But they're assuming a real student-athlete ethos still exists at that level, or that Division I football is still a respected institution. It isn't - especially when it chooses its champion via the opaque and convoluted Bowl Championship Series. That's why other prestigious universities that have Division I programs, like Stanford and Northwestern...
Coming into college, however, he was a highly touted recruit out of Grand Prairie, Texas, having been named a “Top 100 Freshman to Keep an Eye On” by College Soccer News prior to the season. Even still, it took some time for Akpan, who was accustomed to wearing cowboy hats and boots, to settle in. “Andre actually came into preseason freshman year a little chubby. He didn’t exactly finish the fitness test,” writes co-captain Brian D. Grimm ’10 in an e-mail...
...Brandt said that the increase in stipends will help reassure current and prospective students about the financial state of the graduate school. “The rise in stipends will...make Harvard very competitive in our efforts to recruit the most talented students,” Brandt wrote in an e-mail to the Crimson...
...Billboard chart, surpassing Journey's 1981 original - but they sound like they have three times as many voices. A handful of real-life singers can't measure up to heightened audience expectations. "They're like, 'Well, why don't you sound like them,' " she says. One solution: recruit more members. After all, until the show returns in April, Gleeks need an outlet...