Word: selecter
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...After five years of active duty—featuring tours in Southeast Asia, Iraq, and most recently Afghanistan—the 24-year-old has returned to Harvard, now a sophomore in Leverett House, as one of a select group of non-commissioned officers allowed leave by the Marines to complete their degrees while becoming commissioned in a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program...
...cultural loss, also provides the book’s irony and humor. The title “Elvis is Titanic” refers to one of the many East-meets-West exchanges that dot the book: Elvis and the movie Titanic are both well known in Iraq—select items of American culture that were readily available in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The memory of the former dictator is everywhere; as Klaus pushes his students to question globalization and its effects on culture, the overwhelming consensus is that being too open to the West is better than...
...exports are entertainment and democracy, comedy is practically a function of the presidential office. George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for the same reason. Americans have many bizarre criteria by which they select their next Commander in Chief, and a sense of humor is definitely one of them. Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry. The reason...
...cross-company, cross-national teamwork that created the car is inspiring those who are selling it. Nissan's marketing team held global meetings at which, for example, a proposal from Europe to work with only a select number of GT-R dealers was picked up for Japan and, possibly, the U.S. (The GT-R was unveiled in Japan last October, and will launch in the U.S. in June and in Europe by March...
...with President Bush. Stung by the rumored snub, Downing Street promptly produced a letter from Nicky Hobbs, the Global Head of External Relations for Madame Tussaud's. It was a request, dated March 3, inviting Brown to "be honored by the Tussaud's team and be amongst the very select group of people that are made into wax figures...