Word: sought
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...days later, as I sat in the audience of the "Randomization and Self-Segregation at Harvard" forum, I witnessed how sorry an attempt to find this "common ground" could be. As its name suggests, this forum sought to explore a number of questions raised by randomization, particularly in light of race: Has randomization created more diversity among students? Did randomization break up important existing communities without replacing them in some way? These seemed to be very debatable questions that offered room for many viewpoints. Yet panelists did not express a wide variety of opinions. Instead, they staked out a safe...
...temptations of the glorious public recognition they provide. While at the College, we are asked to comp the exclusive Lampoon and Advocate, we are punched for final clubs or the Signet Society, and we are considered for official, titled roles in student organizations. In senior year, we are sought after by firms with names like Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, we are recruited by professional schools like Stanford Law and Harvard Medical, and we are nominated for Rhodes and Marshall scholarships...
...while professors are not generally provided with breakdowns of the costs of the items in their readers, she sought...
This time Starr claims that Hubbell sought to conceal from federal regulators the role he and Hillary Rodham Clinton--whom the indictment does not name, but alludes to as "Rose's 1985-86 billing partner"--played in the complicated real estate deal called Castle Grande. Hubbell's actions, the indictment says, enabled his Rose firm to continue getting lucrative legal work from the Federal Government and helped mask from regulators the collapsing finances of Madison Guaranty, the savings and loan owned by James and Susan McDougal, the Clintons' Whitewater partners. If Hubbell knows something, especially about Hillary Clinton, Starr might...
...then dropped her demand for an apology, a key reason why earlier settlement talks had foundered. Last Friday, after negotiations complicated by a million-dollar sweetener from eccentric New York millionaire Abe Hirschfeld, Jones settled the case for $850,000--a tidy premium over the $700,000 she sought when she brought...