Word: vetted
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...story is told by one of four protagonists who live in the Russian wilderness. A Chechnya vet, he is now a sniper guard for the local nuclear plant. His job is to shoot first. His friends Hotdog and Pepsi, parking-lot attendants, make their living stealing gas from cars. Natasha has slept with two of the three and now runs an international Internet mail-order bride service called Amour Transit, patronized by the fsb (former kgb) and foreign-intelligence services. It's an empty existence of anger and boredom punctuated only by what's on television that night. "Those...
JOHN KERRY doesn't want you to get stuck in Iraq. I mean, get us stuck in Iraq! The vet botched his anti-Bush punch line, making it sound antimilitary. Kids, if you can't tell a joke right, especially during elections, don't tell...
...much time to his care, she knew she would have to find other ways to keep busy. She has become part of a group of women who have lost their spouses and lend support to one another when someone needs a little extra TLC. Because James was a disabled vet, Driver has also become a member of the Disabled Veterans Auxiliary. The other activities that fill her datebook include serving on the board of the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, teaching cooking to young children at a group home and taking courses at the community college near her home...
...better teachers requires shifting the discussion within any given hiring decision. But addressing a lack of diversity in academic specialties requires presidential intervention earlier in the hiring process. Harvard’s system of selecting tenure candidates, which relies heavily on current faculty to search for and vet scholars, tends to generate candidates in the same fields and subfields as the professors themselves. This problem is quite insidious because the quality of Harvard’s hires masks the underlying problem...
...predictions that Question One will cause the Bay State to be overrun with underage winos and drunk drivers unconvincing. According to the “Vote No On Question One” website, 15 and 16 year old clerks who work at grocery stores cannot be relied upon to vet buyers’ ages. But radical increases in underage drinking in neighboring states which allow widespread sale of wine in food stores have not materialized. And besides, grocery stores already sell cigarettes successfully; it should be a relatively small shift to adapt existing technology and training to wine sales. Massachusetts...