Word: scours
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Three years after it began, their channel is attracting some of the most creative people in the business. Agents regularly scour it--and its offspring in New York City, channel102.net--for new talent. Two Saturday Night Live writers and one featured player were hired this season in part for their work on Channel...
More importantly, pre-assigned housing creates the strongest incentive yet for community. It tells freshmen: get to know your dorm-mates because you will be with them for 4 years. It’s ready-made; there’s no need to scour...
...said. After eight weeks at Harvard, Casey said he is impressed by the intensity of faculty recruitment, which he described as a “longer and much more arduous process” than that at Brown. “The process by which the Faculty here scour internationally for opinions about rising scholars is an extremely intense and intensive process and the burdens that places on our Faculty is quite palpable,” Casey said. “I’m amazed by the seriousness and the energy that is brought to searching.” Casey...
...Scour the Bible all you like for an apologetic prophet-one who publicly regrets having been "insensitive" to his audience-but you'll come up empty. Not so in today's world. Take Pat Robertson, Christian Right pioneer and host of the 700 Club. Last week, within a day of Sharon's massive stroke, the televangelist asserted that it had been God's punishment for leader's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip: "Here he's at the point of death. He was dividing God's land," said Robertson. "For any prime minister of Israel who decides he's going...
...just wants to walk around Cambridge anonymously, take public transportation, scour record stores to add to his massive collection, and go on his daily jogs—he is running the New York marathon this week—as the regular person he feels...