To test the system's performance at the configuration stage, the K computer's processing speed was measured by the LINPACK benchmark program, placing it on the 37th TOP500 ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.

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Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, appeared on the CBS program "Face the Nation" to outline concerns over what he called Sotomayor's possible racial bias.

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The U.S. program has been kept alive with backing from powerful pols such as Alaska's ranking Senator Ted Stevens, a World War II veteran and chairman of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.

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Rawitch's husband was a high-ranking editor at the Times, and she herself worked there part-time running a training program for minority reporters.

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The student survey included 57 questions -- 37 on program quality and utility, and 20 on leadership and management skills -- that were used in the student ranking.

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