Word: reporter
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Harvard's hosting of the groundbreaking conference itself contributed to the sense of timeliness, given the imminent release of the highly-publicized Verba committee report on faculty recruitment and Harvard's announcement last fall that it would begin a visiting professor program for ethnic studies. Similar programs are now in place at other universities, especially in the South and West in response to growing Hispanic communities...
...Diego, where some 300,000 illegal aliens were apprehended last year. INS officials maintain that the ditch, 5 ft. deep and 14 ft. wide, will frustrate high-speed car dashes across the border, which now average 400 a month, and * also help correct drainage problems in the area. A report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform supported the idea of the ditch. "Locking uninvited gate-crashers out," it said, "is just good common sense. Everyone has the right to lock his own back door." Associate Attorney General Francis Keating has come up with a nickname for the big hole...
...separated by a continent, he remains his father's son, a princeling of deception: "I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others." Hence he adopts a name, Jack, that he feels suits him better than his real one. An indolent student, he routinely alters his report cards, displaying what he could have done instead of what he did not do. After re- establishing contact with his brother, a student at Princeton, he sees a scholarship at an Eastern prep school as his avenue of escape. He forges his transcript and letters of recommendation: "I wrote without...
...wars they fuel in south Asia since his arrival last October. Two weeks ago, Desmond managed to fly to Kabul, the Afghan capital, which faces a turbulent future as Soviet soldiers withdraw and the rebels move in. The nine- year-old war has proved a special challenge to Western reporters who have sneaked in, flown in under fire and otherwise struggled to report a story purposely shrouded in mystery. Desmond's first trip inside the country provides a brief but penetrating glimpse at a city not yet ready to lay down the guns. "Next time I go it will...
...Benton Foundation, a Washington-based groupthat seeks to change information policy, requestedthat the report be written and is responsible forits distribution, Spence said