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...Navy were there. As were a few retailers and an advertising firm. A teaching recruiter was present and the computer companies were out in force. But the high percentage of banks and consulting firms left me with the impression that the University was selling us off to a select crowd. Who picked this group? Why are they the only ones with access to Harvard students...
...crucial principle is at stake," he said, demonstrating the same stubborness which so dismayed potential Senate supporters. That principle, he continued, involved "the way we select the men and women who guard the liberties of all the American people." Partisan special interests and their direct mailing techniques did him in, he and the president say, and if he were to give in now, they might strike against future candidates for the Court...
...autobiography, Pat Robertson described his brief 1959 ministry in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in a chapter titled "Rats, Roaches and Bedbugs." With the televangelist harboring such fond memories of the local insect population, it seemed strange that Robertson would select this slowly gentrifying black neighborhood to formally declare his G.O.P. presidential candidacy...
...friend was careful to select a realistic and memorable birthdate. He didn't want to forget it under stressful conditions. He also remembered not to change the i.d. number, and the computer bar code on the back had his real name as well...
Before Friday's incident, Vorenberg had plannedto form a committee to discuss issues of freespeech and the right of protestors stemming fromcharges that HLSR had tried to select the audiencefor Calero's speech...