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...fact, the University could easily use the committee’s criteria to justify the discrepancy in pay between workers in House dining halls and those in retail cafeterias, even though the distinction flies directly in the face of parity. And if one recognizes that different categories of employees can be more or less vital to Harvard’s mission and can deserve differing levels of pay, then the committee’s recommendation to raise wages across the board to at least $10.83—which happens to be the entry-level figure for clerical and technical...
...question of how long this war on terrorism will last. The U.S. has embarked on a war against a vague, nonspecific enemy. Our goals, while clearly defined, are undeniably broad. This raises the questions of how long the government plans to continue these tactics and on what criteria the decision to employ them will rest. What if the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee had been given these tools? JESSICA GARD Malden, Mass...
...Question: What is your criteria for picking the Person of the Year...
...Robert P. Kirshner ’70 in the early ’90s, the department became more selective in junior faculty hiring. As a result, three out of the last four people to come up for tenure in the Astronomy department have been promoted. “The criteria in the beginning are that we will not hire people unless we believe that they have a very very good chance,” says Goodman. “We’ve had several junior faculty searches where we’ve actually hired...
...example, in 1998 the U.S. Customs Services was criticized for its racial profiling policies, which targeted mostly black women as potential drug couriers at the nation’s airports. As a result of the criticism, the criteria used to select those to be searched was changed. By focusing more on certain behaviors rather than ethnic background, fewer searches resulted and a significantly higher percentage of those conducted were successful...