Word: criterion
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Although extracurricular activities are not an official criterion for election, many of this year’s chosen juniors are active outside of classes. Carroll, for example, is the editor-in-chief of Swift, and Wolf plays on the varsity track and field team. Another inductee, Joshua I. Rosenbloom ’05, is former president of Hillel...
...state of almost- or partial-aliveness. Logically speaking, can an embryo be partially alive? (Can a woman be partially pregnant?) If a frozen embryo is not worthy of legal protection until it is implanted in a womb, or until it is born, then we have made location the decisive criterion for personhood. But aside from their being at different stages of human development, what, really, is the difference between a frozen embryo awaiting implantation and, say, a nine-year-old girl who was conceived in a lab and once looked just like that frozen embryo? For that matter, weren?...
Business School admissions officer Juan F. Jimenez, who is in charge of the SVMP, said that dropping the race criterion would strengthen the 20 year-old program. “It will broaden the base of what diversity stands for,” he said...
...Langdell Professor of Law Martha A. Field ’65 said that the court’s ruling did not necessarily require the Business School program to drop its race-based criterion...
...though rosters of resident fellows have routinely boasted prominent political experts, the ability to offer “an insider’s look” at the presidential election was an important selection criterion in this highly-charged political year, according to Graff...