Word: representive
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For many American students, Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships represent the pinnacle of academic achievement, because they allow a few top scholars to study in England for free.
K. Brennan Klose '90 and Catherine Boyle '89 were chosen in a nationwide application process to represent the U.S. in debates in Moscow, Leningrad, Kishinev and Minsk. They will be joined on the two-week trip by a third student--a Soviet emigree who attends the University of California at...
...sensibilities in Protestant styles of worship and theology. Catholics, themselves strangers in a strange land, did not proselytize among slaves until they were freed after the Civil War. Today, only 5% of American blacks are Catholic, and the 1.5 million black Catholics make up 2.8% of the American church. Representation in the clergy is worse. The 350 black priests and 700 black nuns represent less than 1% of the total. In the hierarchy, twelve of 400 bishops are black...
The computer at the University of Illinois is simulating something that no one saw: the evolution of the universe in the aftermath of the Big Bang. Re- creating conditions that may have prevailed billions of years ago, the computer reveals on a remote screen how massive clouds of subatomic particles...
But House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) said in a statement that Reagan's veto was "wholly unnecessary and it provoked an unnecessary confrontation. The new law will not end illegal discrimination. But it does represent a step forward in making America truly a land of equal opportunity for all...