Word: selecter
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Harvard is the most selective college in the country; once a student is admitted in April, the contest should be over. Supposedly, every single student of an incoming Harvard class has something to offer the community that the other 89 percent of applicants do not. And yet, among those select few, only a fraction are special enough to go camping...
Consider all the steps the Colleges has taken over the past 30 months to keep decision-making authority as close to University Hall as possible: It removed the final shred of choice students had in upper-class housing selection; it imposed a rigid, centralized bureaucratic structure on Harvard's largest student organization; it rebuffed an attempt to make its Ad Board more accountable to students; it's dean of students threatened to intervene in a referendum administered by the students government; its dean of the College urged the Faculty--the Faculty! --to re-evaluate the students government, which should derive...
...taking credit for every successful White House move. Leopoulos, for one, won't even be at this week's Inauguration. The $150 cost of an Inaugural Ball ticket is too steep, he says, and he would have to miss his 12-year-old daughter's tryout for the Arkansas select soccer team. How's that for common sense from the heartland...
Amazing how warm it was on Lambeau Field on Jan. 12. Standing in a wind-chill temperature way below zero, on a platform in the middle of the field, were select members of the Green Bay Packers, and standing in the stadium around them were 61,000 faithful, joyful, lungful fans. All of them were transported to a higher place than New Orleans, where the Packers will play the New England Patriots this Sunday. All of them were transported to an even better time than 1968, the last year the Packers went to the Super Bowl. That was then, this...
...violent end. Javier Diez Canseco, an opposition congressman released after five days as a hostage, said the stalemate was becoming "extremely dangerous" because it strengthened the position of military factions in the government that favor the use of force. The rebels have retained their bargaining power with a select group of hostages, including Peru's foreign minister, five congressmen, the former Supreme Court president, the ambassadors of Japan and Bolivia and a younger brother of Fujimori. But the President seems unwilling to blink. Even as a shot heard at the compound Tuesday was unexplained, the next breakthrough in the three...