Word: selection
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...vote in the recent parliamentary elections and became an ominous new power. Zhirinovsky's ascent looked disturbingly similar in some details (anti-Semitism, fanatical nationalism, anger and economic privation among the people) to Hitler's rise in the 1930s. When incoming CIA Director James Woolsey testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last February, he described the realities of the new world order: ''We have slain a large dragon, but we live now in a jungle filled with a bewildering variety of poisonous snakes.'' For years the conflicts in the Middle East and South Africa have amounted to terrible...
...rejected and forced to go to Yale but also to those unfortunate in a legitimate sense: those unable due to any number of financial or political constraints to take the plunge and devote four solid years of their lives to academia. MIT’s OpenCourseWare project, which takes select MIT classes and makes all of the imporstant materials available for free online, tries to capitalize (in a social, rather than financial, sense) on this idea.We likely won’t get to pick which parts of the Harvard experience are fundamentally delocalized by technology: progress...
...well-behaved and bright, and their English is as good as anything you would find in Seoul or Tokyo. Vice Principal Bak Ryong Gil says the youngsters are learning to use the Internet. Really, we ask, can they access it? No, he explains, they can only look at select material downloaded at the country's main computer-research center. "There is no Internet," says Bak, "but we have a plan." He says he can't tell us more...
...mail, Isis member Lauren N. Westbrook ’07 wrote, “From a financial standpoint and from an exclusion standpoint, I really feel uncomfortable about the idea of taking select girls on a trip...
...inescapable facet of Harvard undergraduate life is the oft-ridiculed, yet ever-alluring world of final clubs. Though no longer endorsed by the College, these select institutions still dominate, in the view of many, much of Harvard’s social life, and in doing so perpetuate artificial social distinctions and gender inequality...