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...addition, a "fourth reader" is designated whose responsibliity it is to maintain an overview on Asian-American folder evaluation, recruiting and follow-up in April after students are admitted. (The term "fourth reader" refers to the fact that we normally have three readers assigned to each applicant.) The "fourth reader" sits on the subcommittees from which more than 50 percent of Asian-American students apply, reading a significant number of Asian-American applications on these subcommittees either as an area representative, second reader, or as the "fourth reader." This person also serves as a "fourth reader" on Asian-American folders...
Still, direct mailers are growing more sensitive to consumer concerns about increasingly interwoven data bases. A few direct mailers refuse to rent their lists to other mailers. Among the holdouts: the Red Cross, Reader's Digest and AT&T, which posts close to 300 million pieces of promotional mail annually...
...gallon. The author of one of the most elegant short novels of the century, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, wastes not a word in this, her 19th, novel. With brief snatches of conversation, 10 characters at a London dinner party are introduced with such clarity that the reader knows who would be a bore to sit next to and who will drink too much...
...this nearly 800-page biography, a reader may wonder just how this Paley fellow ever got so far. Smith makes ritual bows toward his personal charm and "genius for mass programming." But concrete examples are scarce. More typically, we hear of the deals Paley botched, the employees he treated badly and the hit CBS shows, like All in the Family and The Dukes of Hazzard, that he initially opposed. Even in victory -- like his famous talent raids of the late 1940s, when CBS wooed Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen and other big stars away from NBC -- Paley seems curiously passive...
...course, if the search committee isn't looking for someone just like Derek Bok then the ad would have to read somewhat differently, but the point remains. (Note to the reader: I have just made a joke linking the president of Harvard University to various kinky sexual habits and gotten away with it. This demonstrates the concept of a "lame duck" officeholder...