Word: criterion
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...membership with our friends just to win the election. Her evidence? Some of our members have not attended a meeting since the election. While I would ask Williams to find me any large organization on campus which attracts every member to every general meeting, I would also question her criterion for making this accusation. If we use meeting attendance to decide who is "padding," then Williams herself, as well as eight other members of their 14-person executive board, could be included in this category--they have not attended an HRC meeting since elections...
Nowhere on any college application I have ever seen is moral fiber defined as a criterion for admission. And how does one measure moral fiber anyway? Should academic institutions allow their interviewers to probe 17 year-old psyches and, in one hour or less, form opinions on their characters? Are any of these interviewers qualified to do this, or are they acting like armchair psychologists at the students' expense? And why are colleges doing this anyway? Presumably they are choosing candidates foe academia and not the priesthood...
...Harvard's stated goals is that students should know "a little about everything and a lot about something." Harvard certainly fulfills the latter criterion. It is not hard to find people here who know just about everything about computer cache algorithms, the industrial development of Upper Silesia or FK-506's binding to and subsequent inactivation of calcineurin. However, I fear that there is too little emphasis placed on developing the general body of knowledge that all educated men and women should posses. The place to remedy that is in the Core, and it should be done...
...Congressional General Accounting Office report. Federal agencies for years had denied such clearances to homosexuals on the assumption that all gays were at risk of being blackmailed. The GAO said today that it reviewed records for contractors and civilians from eight agencies and found homosexuality was no longer a criterion for granting security clearances. Six of those agencies have written policies that prohibit asking clearance applicants about their sexual orientation. The Defense Department and the Secret Service said sexual orientation is no longer a criterion but they have not revised their written policies to reflect that...
...Democratic House staff members hope the President's study will become the "Godot review"-pending but never delivered. But White House aides are telling lobbyists that changes will be recommended, including limiting the size of government subsidies, paring programs that set aside government contracts for minorities and adding the criterion of economic need to benefits now dispensed on race or gender...