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...build their reputation and audience the right way, by paying their dues two or three hours at a time in places such as Ljubljana, Slovenia, that most Americans haven't heard of. That's an everlasting statement of their commitment to the craft, and it's one of the criteria that separate them from the Wu-Tang Clan and other great hip-hop acts. Wu-Tang has as many seeds of interest across the world as the Roots do, but you have to go to each one of those seeds and water them. You've got to be able...
...Five years ago, when I began my college search, one of the most important criteria for me was a sense of school spirit and community. Coming from the South and having performed as the baton twirler with a high school band of 250 members, I was used to a lot of school spirit. On game days, athletes wore their team jerseys around campus. This is not to say that athletics reigned supreme at my high school; in fact, we were consistently below average in football and basketball. Yet there was tremendous school pride, and the games were packed with fans...
Each member of the panel independently ranked their top eight choices to determine the winner. The criteria for selection included leadership abilities, academic excellence and community service in addition to superior athletic skills...
Last spring, Mary Maples Dunn, the then-acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute, and Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced that they decided not to give the prize because they feared there would not be enough time before graduation to ensure that the criteria for the prize complied with Harvard’s non-discrimination policy. They also said they wanted to establish a set of criteria for the prize that was in keeping with the mission of the Institute...
...Step 1, the scientific panel concluded, was to change current trial design to give the new drugs more time to work. As a second step, the panel also wants to change the criteria by which a drug's success is measured. The group proposed that with the newer, better-targeted medications, success should be determined not by whether a tumor shrinks in size but by whether it can be confined, or by how long a patient can put off chemotherapy...