Word: selecter
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Singh is an economics concentrator but he said he hopes that his experience outside the classroom will help him select his career
...election process for U.S. President has become far more direct and democratic in the past few decades than our founding fathers ever intended. The electoral college was meant to be a deliberative body of state legislature representatives who would carefully select the leader of the country. The electors were to be educated, informed citizens who understood the issues facing the government and could be trusted to select someone as important as the president of the United States...
Today, the election process does not at all reflect this ideal scenario. The advent of direct primaries and the decline of political parties' power have virtually eliminated any sense of a deliberative process. The system now depends on the voting public to select the candidates. The task at hand then becomes to educate voters, providing them with information about the candidates and their platforms, so that they can make well-informed and well-thought-out decisions. The media has, by default, become the link between the candidates and the people. Without television, radio and newspapers, those running for office would...
...team is only as good as its leader. What remains unresolved after what aides described as a "tormenting process'' is the role Clinton has assigned himself. It is one thing to select a team; it is quite another to give it direction...
Regardless of how inexpensive and jaw-droppingly cool the Nintendo 64 game machine's 3-D graphics might be, for you to select this as the "Machine of the Year" doesn't make sense [TECHNOLOGY BUYER'S GUIDE, Nov. 25]. There is more to home computing than playing one of Nintendo's five neat-o video games. For family transportation, would you recommend dirt bikes as cheap, exciting alternatives to a minivan? TODD SPANGLER New York City...