Word: pooling
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Moreover, just because the pool of judges in the appeals court contains more Reagan-Bush appointees than Carter-Clinton appointees doesn't mean that it will automatically take Microsoft's side. Judge Robert Bork, a former conservative member of the court, is now retained by Microsoft's opponents. "I looked at the case and went with the other side," he says. So did one other prominent G.O.P.-appointed judge--Thomas Penfield Jackson...
...thousands held a pro-democracy demonstration, chanting angry slogans against hard-line mullahs while holding pictures of jailed Iranian journalists. If anything, the convening of a reform parliament puts more pressure on Khatami to satisfy the yearning for change. "We understand he is trying to fill a huge pool with an eyedropper," says Tehran secretary Rezvan Nayeri, 34. "But there is no more room for excuses." Some students are frustrated too that the reform movement remains an insider's game, still intolerant of secularists, socialists or anyone ambivalent about the Islamic Revolution. Says Ibrahim Yazdi, head of the Iran Freedom...
...Life was in many ways uniform from House to House. They all held annual dinners, which were attended by the president of the University, and they all celebrated athletics. They vied for the same little luxuries: a pool table, a dark room, a formal dance in the spring. And they worked to make their members feel that they were part of something significant. Nearly 200 Leverett House residents, for example, turned out to watch their team in the inter-House football championship in the early 1950s. Leverett was invigorated, fresh off its attempt to claim Gore Hall from Winthrop House...
...reason is external. Courts and voters have expressed their disfavor with affirmative action. Another reason is that the applicant pool is very diverse and very qualified. The College might be able to disregard ethnicity since its pool is so diverse...
...large pool of available guards has helped to ensure that every House is protected during every shift, which frees Harvard police officers for patrol. When more security is needed, like during Head of the Charles weekend, SSI is able provide extra manpower. Administrators also point to the mandatory training, including CPR certification, which SSI guards undergo. While many proprietary guards were former law enforcement officers, several admitted to the Crimson last year that they'd never undergone formal training...