Word: request
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Granting a tiny respite from the confidentiality of the presidential search, Harvard's presidential search committee has asked for letters of student input regarding our wishes for the next president. This request pokes a small chink in the closed doors of the committee's meetings and offers students an opportunity to voice opinions over the next president. Thus, we have composed a short wish-list of objectives that we would like to see undertaken by the next president. The areas that we wish to see improved fall primarily into three categories: spending on students, changes to the faculty and communication...
Nevertheless, we encourage students to take the opportunity afforded by the invitation to write letters telling the search committee their opinions regarding the presidential search. These letters will have more weight if they are written in collaboration, and if students request face-to-face communication with the committee. It is only through persistent demands that we can hope to get the student voice heard and to get a president who cares about what the students think...
...Bush campaign's request that McCain sit with the family at the debate was sudden, coming after renewed speculation in the national media that McCain--ranked in public opinion polls as one of the most admired men in America--wasn't doing all he could to promote his party's presidential ticket...
Davis said the Bush campaign requested McCain's presence at the first presidential debate, held Oct. 3 in Boston. But the request included a proviso that McCain be one of Bush's surrogates, selling the campaign's theme to the press after the debates...
...perhaps most mature-album yet and first since 1997's Nimrod, the Berkeley trio wasted no time in plugging the disc, opening with its first single, "Minority." From there, though, the band shied away from a greatest hits type performance, something eminently possible, in favor of a friendlier, all-request format. This slapdash approach was a stroke of genius-it drew the audience into the set and the interaction gave the group a reason to keep going...