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...Professor Peter N. Kiang '80 of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, who also spoke at the forum, said that many of the criteria used to evaluate the success of Asian-Americans are misleading. Supposedly objective measures of success, such as median family income, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and grades can give a mistaken impression of the true position of Asians, he said...
This difficulty in defining who qualifies is one of the problems facing those who would grant new rights to domestic partners. It is important to have criteria that are strict enough to prevent just any casual lover, roommate or friendly acquaintance in need of health insurance from cashing in. But prying into private lives and requiring proofs of emotional commitment are hardly suitable activities for government...
...criteria are not economics," Morgan says. "I don't get people applying who appear to be in dire straights...For whatever reason people who are low-income tenants don't make it into our apartments...
...would be subject to greater scrutiny and influence from abroad than they would be as outcasts. Others who favored readmission, including U.S. psychiatrists Alfred Freedman and Abraham Halpern, argued that during the past few years -- especially in the months preceding the Americans' March visit -- the Soviets had satisfied the criteria established for readmission in 1983, which called simply for "amelioration" of past abuses. In the year since the last W.P.A. meeting, for instance, the Soviets have released more than a hundred "patients." In July they purportedly banned the use of pain-inducing sulfazine, the most notorious of the contested drugs...
...appointment is unique for another reason. Mas-Colell, a Spanish national with permanent resident status in the U.S., is considered a minority by the federal government's affirmative action criteria. There are no other minorities with the rank of associate dean or higher...