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Though there is always room for criticism, I believe our current endorsement process is the fairest, most thorough and most faithful to the scholarships that Harvard has ever used. We no longer eliminate candidates from the bottom, but try to identify those who are very strong in order to endorse them. As it does throughout the competition (and exams and term papers), the burden falls on candidates to make the best possible case for themselves. In its final phase, our committee does consider supporting materials from the Houses, but decisions fall on the basis of what candidates themselves have chosen...
Bush has been the fairest of the candidates in dealing with the issue of abortion, which has been a major focus of this campaign. He has explicitly contradicted the idea that he would only appoint justices who are pro-life. He has promised that he will not use the abortion stance as a litmus test in appointing justices, while Gore has said that he will only appoint justices who support abortion. Gore voted pro-life through the 1980s, but since his vice presidential candidacy, he has refused the possibility of appointing a justice who maintains any beliefs but the most...
...Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty have their head in the sand [NATION, Oct. 25]. We have not used nuclear weapons in more than 54 years, and we need not use them if we maintain Ronald Reagan's very simple, commonsense strategy whereby we will always be the biggest, fairest kid on the block. ROBERT H. BICKMEYER Troy, Mich...
Norfleet's "Frolic" is also cheerful, while "Who's the Fairest of Them All" provides witty commentary not only on the aesthetics of insects (which not all of us find as attractive, as, say, horses or bunnies) and our own human vanity through the Narcissus allegory but on the inherent vanity in artistic expression as well. The photograph is also a display of Norfleet's artistic ingenuity, as it integrates both the insect and its mirror image seamlessly. Later in the book, "Of Course We Prayed" presents a similar commentary, as Norfleet uses praying mantises as a clever...
Because the Ad Board omits these features from its proceedings, legal experts and other schools around the country say Harvard is out of step with higher education in general--and as a result, students sometimes miss out on the chance to get the fairest hearing possible...