Word: processing
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...friends, no matter what they vowed against four years ago, take jobs for suits and skirts, in tall glass buildings with surname amalgamations for names--and the brave few who are headed out to underfunded elementary schools and service positions. I have seen how heartbreaking the graduate-school application process is. Currently, my roommates have posted their umpteen medical-school rejection letters around the real prize: one addressed to "Dear Applicant." Four years of labs, and some med school still doesn't bother to look up your name...
...photographer Robert Capa distilled the secret of his craft into one sentence: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.'' Capa, who got one step too close when a landmine blew him up him in Indochina in 1954, lived by those words and in the process he forged a new photojournalism. His photographs were real, without the slightest scent of contrivance. They were too graphic and too close-up to be fake: when you see the subject's brain exiting the back of his skull, you know the shot is a one-time event, and that...
...means winning enough delegates to the party's convention. In the current system, states engage in a "race to the bottom"--or a "race to the front"--pushing primaries back so their residents can cast votes that count. The result is called "front loading." Such a top-heavy primary process, in which few Americans cast votes that will matter, can hardly serve as an adequate test of a candidate's fitness for national office. In 1980, 21 percent of convention delegates were selected by March 15. Today, 63 percent are. A front-loaded process also leads to the current grim...
...Delaware Plan would let small-population states such as Rhode Island and Alaska go first (after the traditional Iowa and New Hampshire primaries), medium states next, and so on through four successive stages that culminate with large states like California, Texas and New York. By the end of the process in June, only 53 percent of the delegates would have been selected before the big boys weighed...
...deal look more palatable. The company reiterated that it is willing to sell all or part of its Internet "backbone" - the switching-provider part of the deal, which also worries European regulators - to help soothe antitrust regulators. A spokesman said Thursday that the company currently is in the process of defining exactly what business units are a part of that backbone and spinning them off into a separate division. Meeting the feds halfway is usually the best way to deal with them, and if Ebbers has to give up some of his routing dominance...