Word: timer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rather than have students come to the University for personal interviews, Harvard has given that responsibility primarily to alumni. To keep them fresh, admissions officials meet with alumni and go through practice "case" applications. Each applicant is questioned by an old-timer who rates students on a scale from one to five. One is reserved for only those students whose superiority whether academic, extracurricular, or otherwise makes the man unquestionable admit. For the gray area between 2 + and 4--, it gets more difficult...
...Jacobo Timer man, author of Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without A Number and The Longest War, Israel in Lebanon, spent two years imprisoned and tortured in Argentina for being Jewish and an outspoken, leftist journalist. Because of this outspokenness and his political, beliefs. Timer man was welcomed back into the Jewish community after his release with an outpouring of derision from the Argentinean and American Jewish establishments. It has been especially embarrassing, as an American Jew, to see Jewish authorities apparently join the United States government in its distinction between "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" states when it comes to Jewish...
...have not read The Longest War, only Timer man's articles and excerpts published here concerning Israel and the war in Lebanon, and from his words and past deeds it is obvious to me that Timer man is a man not to be condemned but emulated; a person who acts as his conscience directs and who, while remaining a committed Zionist Jew, is not afraid to apply principles of social justice and ethical behavior to any society in which he lives. Mr. Timer man did not move to America, the Land of Milk and Honey and Harvard University when...
Despite bitter attacks-from those ostensibly supportive of Israel, it is people with the strength and vision of a Jacob Timer man who can help guide Israel onto a path of peaceful co-existence with its neighbors and a restoration of equity and general health within Israeli society. As long as Timer man stays in Israel, and his detractors behind their desks in America, maybe there is some hope. Toba Spitzer...
Dadaian had reportedly been carrying dynamic detonators and a timer in a suitcase. He was being held last night on 51 million balt...