Word: selecter
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Fitzsimmons said that the committee's overriding goal was to select the best candidates, despite recent criticism in the popular press that accuses selective colleges of filling quotas...
...really true that most people have a deeper, better side than what we usually see? It's tough to prove. But as a slice of evidence, consider the "blocking" process, in which first-years select the people with whom they expect to live for the next three years. Despite the College's efforts to create complimentary rooming groups, countless uncontrollable factors make rooming placement for first-years more or less arbitrary. As a result of this randomness, one might expect a mass exodus from these contrived rooming groups by sophomore year as students chose to live with people who shared...
According to Nancy Barra of Chile, president of the Intercultural Center for Research in Education located in Arlington, Mass.: "[Warwick] had an amazing capacity to select just the right anecdote to illustrate a point. He really understood other people...
...Cops in Shops" program is arbitrary. Currently, 32 Cambridge liquor stores participate in the program. The Cambridge License Commission uses a lottery system to select sting targets on a given evening. Those unlucky individuals who are caught by the program face the harshest of consequences, but it is their poor luck alone that accounts for their special fate. Countless minors continue to purchase alcohol unobstructed. Granted, the example of others may serve as a deterrent, but there are far more just ways of enforcing the law. If the CPD wishes to crack down on the illegal purchase of alcohol, they...
...Gardner, co-founder of the Motley Fool Website, where an estimated 200,000 "fools" play some version of the Dow dogs. Stan Craig, head of UIT sales at Merrill Lynch (which controls $10 billion in Dow-dog assets), notes that a buy-and-hold investor in the first "Select 10" UIT in 1991 would be up 184% by now, vs. 171% for the Dow. But clearly the advantages first noted by O'Higgins have eroded. Morningstar Inc. studied the strategy over the 24 years ending in 1996. It found that the first half of the period--before anyone really used...