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...about a cancellation “due to a scheduling conflict” while convening elsewhere in secret, refusing to stand behind their speaker and face legitimate dissent in the customary manner—that is perhaps most encouraging. As the show trials of various “bad apples?? continue, those who cultivate them are honored with speaking engagements. But the evident shame of everyone involved in the Bybee appearance may be an indication that the scandal of torture cannot survive its disclosure forever. Curtis M. Brown is a seventh-year English PhD student and a member...

Author: By Curtis M. Brown, | Title: Whitewashing Torture | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...students need to know what competing colleges and universities have to offer. Anecdotal evidence can be helpful to a student making a matriculation decision, but by quantifying elements of school quality, the rankings allow what U.S. News spokesperson Richard Folkers calls “apples-to-apples?? comparisons between schools. These explicit, quantitative comparisons provides a forum for direct competition...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: Improving, One Rank At A Time | 10/8/2002 | See Source »

...News spokesperson Richard Folkers said the rankings existed solely to provide families with access to “apples-to-apples?? comparisons that are important in selecting a school...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: U.S. News Puts Harvard Second | 9/17/2002 | See Source »

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