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...have 18,000 degree-seeking students," Stone said. "It's very hard to select two or three or four to represent the 18,000, particularly with all the graduate schools...
...should step up and answer the call. It is no great secret that these sorts of committees do not hang on every word of a student's email. But this is no reason why we as students should not treat the offer of helping to select a leader of the academic world with as much seriousness as the presidential election. In fact, it may be of even more importance--you are part of an elite group who even has standing with the search committee, an electorate that alumni and all still is much smaller than that of the least populated...
...Stanford President Gerhard S. Casper--whom she had helped select as a member of Stanford's presidential search committee--made her his number-two only months after she had received tenure...
...this school year, we plan to select a TIME School of the Year, to be featured in our Education Special Report. That school won't necessarily be the "best" as measured by test scores or the consensus of educators, but rather a school that this year offers inspiration in the obstacles it has overcome, the results it has shown or the innovations it has employed...
...From among this wealth of choices, I have attempted to select the 10 best Beatle songs, a daunting task that I chose not to further compound by trying to put them in order. (It was George Harrison's misfortune as a songwriter to get stuck with Lennon and McCartney; in any other band he would have stood out, but not on this list, even if his post-Beatles work stands up to that of his bandmates. Then again, the challenge of proving himself probably provided the push that made him write "While My Guitar Gently Weeps...