Word: casper
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...rankings have also become enormously controversial. Among the schools critical of the system are members of U.S. News's own top-25 club: Berkeley, Tufts, Rice, M.I.T. and Wesleyan. Critics rally around Stanford president Gerhard Casper's censure of the "specious formulas and spurious precision" of the lists. What is wrong, many say, is that the conclusions are based too much on input--the current reputation of each school and the attributes of incoming students. More helpful, they say, would be a measure of output--what consumers (that's what applicants really are) are likely to get in exchange...
Stanford's president, Gerhard Casper,speculated that rankings as precise as thoseoffered by the report were "may be statisticallyinsignificant" in a 1996 letter to U.S. News...
...luster, she is the heir to Winona Ryder. As an icon of indie film, she's a teen Parker Posey. But don't waste comparisons on Christina Ricci. At 18, she is her own, clever young actress grown up onscreen from the gothic child playing with dead things in Casper and The Addams Family to the buxom blond in The Opposite of Sex. "I love her access to her dark places," says Sex auteur Don Roos. "There's a very mature, adult mind behind that childlike face...
Starship Troopers' CASPER VAN DIEN talks about his upcoming movie Tarzan and the Lost City...
...policies were designed to helpalleviate "the pressures facing middle-classparents," said Stanford President Gerhard Casper...