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...than a little suspect, the Crimson has been a darling of the voters, ranking in the top 10--and often the top five--for much of the season. Clarkson has never been highly ranked. In addition, some of the same people who contribute to these somewhat dubious polls also select the tournament teams and are inclined to make themselves look good...
...Faculty A. Michael Spence. Despite the council's wishes, Spence this semester denied treasurer Zayas, or any student, the right to serve on the committee. However, in their private meeting Spence and treasurer Zayas discussed the candidates for the Byerly Hall post and the criteria used to select the new dean, Zayas informs the council...
...Executive branch's monopoly on secret information gives it a great edge, says Miller. As staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence chaired by former Sen. Frank Church, Miller was involved in Congress' post-Vietnam, post-Watergate investigation of the role of secrecy in a democracy...
...once vibrant Asian archipelago that is wallowing in social and economic stagnation and bedeviled by a growing Communist insurgency. On foot, by horse cart, even by boat, upwards of 24 million Philippine voters went to the polls to do something they had not done for 16 years: freely select a President. The choice appeared to be clear-cut. The candidates were President Ferdinand Marcos, 68, who has ruled for 20 years from the Spanish colonial-style Malacanang Palace, and Challenger Corazon Aquino, 53, who in the space of just ten weeks had emerged as the standard- bearer...
...insertion of a subplot focusing on a Jewish couple who had been held in a Nazi concentration camp during the second world war was just too much to take. The airline stewardess, Ingrid (Hanna Schygulla), is asked by the hijackers to select Jewish-sounding names from the collection of passenger's passports. She refuses, saying, "Don't you know I'm German...I won't do it again!" The director goes on to demonstrate that he is aiming at the lowest common denominator of human intelligence when he shows us a close-up of a Jewish passenger's tatooed forearm...