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...racking pain. Some 30,000 cases had been reported in the U.S. by the end of last year. From 1986 through 1989, reported cases doubled each year, and a slight drop last year (7,995 cases, from 8,551 the year before) may reflect only a change in reporting criteria...
...filed suit in November against the Law School, charging that the School discriminates against women and minorities in its faculty hiring practices. In a 38-page document, the signees specifically alleged that the school uses a set of criteria to evaluate prospective faculty members that are biased against women and minorities...
...already has agencies dedicated to handling emergencies: the High Commissioner for Refugees, for instance, and the Disaster Relief Coordinator's office. But the criteria of the former confine it to aiding persecution victims who cross borders, while the latter commands few resources and little authority. Officials in afflicted nations often bypass the U.N. and appeal directly to foreign governments and private charities such as Britain's Oxfam...
Both impulses have shared a very American respect for legalistic thinking -- not surprisingly, since so many American diplomats were Wasp lawyers. They searched, as George Kennan put it, for "formal criteria of a juridical nature by which the permissible behavior of states could be defined." The rest of the world was often baffled by our devotion to this search, even as it made the rest of the world baffling to us. "To the American mind," Kennan added, it was "implausible that people should have positive aspirations more important to them than the peacefulness and orderliness of international life." Still, whether...
...traditional workers might not meet those promotion criteria well, but it doesn't mean that they won't do the job well," she said. "We need to rethink performance criteria and promotion criteria...