Word: processing
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...only meeting with reporters since the search began, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 said the search committee is three-fourths of the way through the first stage of the search process, which he said consists of gathering community opinion and obtaining the names of potential candidates...
...Stone said that one Brown administrator has even asked him to speed up the process because prospective presidents might not want to commit to Brown until they were sure they were not being considered for the Harvard post...
...Stone opened the conference with a defense of the secrecy that surrounds the search process, which he said is necessary to protect both the candidates and those who give their frank advice to the search committee...
...They can, because Cornell, like other ?lite colleges, has seven applicants for every spot in its freshman class. As 1.2 million high school seniors begin the college-application process in earnest this month, competition has never been fiercer. Nor have students been better prepared. These days, kids in junior high take high school academic classes to make room for more demanding courses in the later grades. And in just the past decade, there's been an 83% increase in the number of ninth-graders who take the sat - just for practice...
...Clinton and Gore do command all the resources of incumbency. In any case, an American presidential election seems relatively unimportant in a world context that is, for the moment, abruptly changed. Arafat has succeeded in discrediting the peace process itself, an act of wanton perversity. The Palestinians had within their grasp the best settlement they will ever get - almost all of the West Bank and Gaza, the prospect of a shared Jerusalem. But perhaps in the Palestinian subconscious there remains a sense of injured honor that judges it must win back by force of arms land lost by force...