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...based on gender. It would really run against the idea that we should be admitting the most talented individuals,” he says. “As long as we can be sure we’re getting the most talented people, that’s the only criteria.”According to Fitzsimmons, the Class of 2010 is currently 52.4 percent female. And Harvard has no plans to institute affirmative action for men.“It really would be tragic to turn down someone more talented because she happened to a be woman...
...developing world, diagnostic red flags like obesity, so useful in the U.S., may not be right for patients elsewhere; treatment may also vary. The International Diabetes Federation, which works with the World Health Organization to promote diabetes education, is proposing a new set of guidelines that would set specific criteria for detecting diabetes in different populations...
...legislation, although it simultaneously confirmed the commitment of the Admissions Office not to take applicants’ sexual orientation into account.Speculation at the time suggested that the Faculty was afraid that conservative donors would withhold money or felt they should abstain from such discussions by sticking to the criteria of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which did not have a non-discrimination policy by sexual orientation. Professor Claudio Guillén, who supported the proposal at the time, claimed that the Faculty was simply unwilling to appear to endorse homosexuality, according to a 1981 Crimson article.“I don?...
...right way to deal with the ideological crises of our time. We called ourselves Liberals.Today, it is no longer possible to regard Harvard as a free and open marketplace of ideas. It has become closed to ideas that are not considered “correct” by some criteria that we do not understand and on which we never had the opportunity to vote. University President Lawrence H. Summers was ousted not only for expressing a multitude ideas that somehow offended devotees of the conventional wisdom—not only his comments on women and science, but also...
...story rating the best and worstU.S. Senators [April 24] was little more than a display of the prejudices of your editorial staff. No set, objective criteria were used to compare members of the Senate; the information reported was purely subjective. No attempt was made to analyze the work of the Senate statistically or rank all 100 Senators in any systematic way. The article amounted to a popularity contest with a very short list of judges. Your report was a disservice to your readers and called into question the veracity of your publication. ANGELA DE ROCHA DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE...