Word: criterion
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Harvard officials would not comment on what hurdles Hunt had to overcome or whether the criterion for deciding whether to retain someone after a criminal case varies based on the employee’s position...
...Howard Simon, the A.C.L.U.'S Florida executive director, argues that it is important to draw a line between prisons that make chaplains available to inmates and prisons that make faith their core corrections criterion. "We're glad the Governor wants to improve Florida's brutal prison conditions," says Simon, "but not under the condition that religious indoctrination has to be involved." A.C.L.U. lawyers are studying the extent of direct or even indirect government funding for Lawtey's religion-based activities before deciding whether to file suit against the program. Simon and other critics also complain that Bush unveiled the faith...
...undermine the quality of education the College provides, and even more so when paired with the possibility of producing a capstone project instead of a thesis. The undergraduate thesis offers a tried and true method for the development of the skills necessary for serious academic research and establishes a criterion by which to gauge individual excellence. With the exception of those fields where a traditional thesis is not possible, concentrations which allow an alternative senior effort are only making themselves vulnerable to those who would abuse the system...
...Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark, Power has a nuanced philosophy that is not an easy fit with either party. She condemns the first Bush Administration for not committing military force to stop Iraqi genocide before and after the first Gulf War. But she opposed the second Gulf War. "My criterion for military intervention--with a strong preference for multilateral intervention--is an immediate threat of large-scale loss of life," she has said. "That's a standard that would have been met in Iraq in 1988 but wasn't in 2003." --By Romesh Ratnesar
...academic world, this person doesn’t exist, but any student at all familiar with the inside of a university film studies department knows his kind very well. Subsisting on a rigid diet of Fassbinder and Brakhage, the only filmic pleasure he knows is found deep within his Criterion collection...