Word: vetted
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When a Congressman makes the extraordinary claim that U.S. troops killed innocent civilians "in cold blood," Washington takes notice. And when he's a former Marine and decorated Vietnam vet, the assertion carries special weight. Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha, who backed going to war in 2002 but has become a vocal critic of the Bush Administration's handling of Iraq, last week said U.S. Marines were guilty of murdering civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha last November--an event that was uncovered by TIME in March...
...Senate race? When Democrats think they can score a trifecta by beating a Republican incumbent in the South, hobbling him as a possible presidential candidate and boosting the fortunes of one of their White House wannabes. That's the weighty challenge for novice politician Jim Webb, a decorated Vietnam vet and a senior Pentagon official under Ronald Reagan who is challenging Republican Senator George Allen in Virginia...
...father, a construction worker: "During a time when my life was full of stress, terror, and unpredictable cruelty, he [Irish] offered a harbor of love and sanity that I drew on daily." Originally planning to be a veterinarian, he dropped out of Iowa State University's pre-vet program when he could no longer afford it and opened his training business in 1977. His informal work with horses helped him realize the importance of negotiating space with animals, and he has incorporated those lessons into his classes...
...UC’s second option is to abandon its own vetting process completely and open funding to all CCL-approved student groups. Opponents argue that decisions about funding should be based on the judgement of elected representatives, not administrators. This position is unnecessarily stubborn; what the UC might give up in the power to vet student groups for non-discrimination, it would gain in consistency and coherence. When CCL approves a student group, it considers its membership policies with respect to the College’s non-discrimination policy and federal law, which makes exceptions for single-sex singing...
...search for the next chief of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). University President Lawrence H. Summers and the Faculty’s governing council agreed in February that a committee of professors would compile a list of deanship candidates, and that the committee would then vet finalists for the job. The Undergraduate Council last night appointed seven students to an advisory panel that will issue a report on the qualities of an ideal dean. Graduate Student Council President Benjamin G. Lee, whose organization comprises master’s and doctoral candidates within FAS, said that he and other...