Word: appointment
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...Governors Weld, Whitman and Pataki, displaying either political principle or electoral pragmatism, have vowed to modify the platform to include pro-choice politicians like them. Weld is now pressuring the party to appoint new, pro-choice delegates to represent Massachusetts at the Republican convention this summer. He hopes to garner support for a more open, tolerant platform...
...appoint themselves to hold these seminars decide what is fact and what is fiction? Their decisions are based mainly on what seems right to them. By saying the Gospels are unreliable, the Jesus Seminar members show they are confused. Whether Jesus is God or whether he is not God is irrelevant. The "character" Jesus is detailed in the Bible. Even the Old Testament books foreshadow him. Would not the Bible then be the best evidence of him? To scratch out almost all the Gospels and accept only a fraction of them as possibly true is quite puzzling. BRIAN JANZEN Yarrow...
...Clinton. He asked his aides two weeks ago to prepare a series of speeches on foreign policy, economics, crime and values that make clear where he differs from the incumbent President. The first came last Friday, when Dole referred to Clinton 22 times, lambasting him for his "liberal appointments" to the federal bench and promising to "appoint judges who respect the rule of law," who "understand that society is not to blame for crime, criminals...
...first opportunity appoint the first black "master" of a house. (And how about using an alternative term to master? I know I cringe every time...
...pleased to hear that the search committee shares our desire to appoint an academic to the Corporation. Charlotte P. Armstrong, a member of the search committee and the Board of Overseers, says, "It's very important to have the point of view of an academic when you're running an academic institution." We agree with Armstrong that if the Corporation is to have academic excellence as its ultimate end, it makes a great deal of sense to make use of academics for the means of its attainment...