Word: selected
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...still seek gratification in several exclusive societies. The international Mensa society accepts only applicants who can prove they scored in the top 2% on any standard IQ test (among its 32,000 fellows: Isaac Asimov and F. Lee Bailey). The International Society for Philosophical Enquiry is even more select: its members, who now number more than 100, must rank in the 99.9 percentile...
STUDENTS WILL SELECT House representatives this week who will choose one undergraduate representative on the 12-member panel that ostensibly advises Harvard on the social issues involved in its investment policies, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR). As students prepare to cast their ballots in these all-too-easily ignored elections, they should be aware that the ACSR currently serves largely as administrative window-dressing, a source of legitimation for the socially retrograde shareholding activities of the Harvard Corporation. Especially this year, when Harvard students for the first time in five years have taken a mass-based stand...
...surveillance and sabotage against a wide variety of right-and left-wing groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Not until 1971, a year before his death, did Hoover, alarmed by the threat of exposure, suspend the program. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence exposed the full scope of COINTELPRO'S partly unconstitutional mission in 1975, but only last week did the full extent of the FBI's dirty tricks become public. Reporters from eight news organizations, who had demanded to see the files under the Freedom of Information...
...workshop on women in entry and mid-level positions, Jeanne Khan, the only women in the Defense Audit Agency to serve as an administrative officer, said academic degrees are less important in acquiring top-level positions than the fundamental decision to "select power...
...student members of CUE will select the winners, with the advice of the faculty CUE members, by interviewing students who made nominations and by visiting classes, Grabar added...