Word: criterion
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...audience will be, but give the experience a shot regardless. This 1998 adaptation of writer Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo opus was unjustly roasted when it premiered at Cannes and flopped at the box office in the same month, but its recent DVD release by the prestigious Criterion Collection is rehabilitating its reputation. Oh, and the film? Its a hilariously anarchic screed about the death of the sixties and the bankruptcy of polite society, starring Johnny Depp (sensational) and Benecio del Toro and featuring everybody from Cameron Diaz to Tobey Maguire. Tuesday, April...
Divestment reflects a sentiment that a particular company—or, in this case, an entire industry—is categorically immoral. Just over a year ago, this criterion was fulfilled when Harvard rightly divested from tobacco companies, which market a product that is uniquely addictive, harmful and irredeemable by today’s health standards. But the requirement is not met by the 11 top American defense companies in which Harvard invests. The weapons they produce, though designed to destroy, still have an important deterrent value. Just as it did during the Cold War, America today arms itself...
Brown’s victory over St. Lawrence guaranteed that the Bears would avoid a sub-.500 finish. Since Harvard has two victories over Brown and one NCAA seeding criterion is record against teams at or above .500, Brown’s victory might help Harvard earn a No. 1 seed in the Frozen Four. In fact, if the selection committee uses records as the only proxy for the stated selection criteria—a method used by the USCHO.com Pairwise Rankings that has yet to be contradicted in men’s or women’s hockey?...
Harvard has power to improve the working conditions for employees of many of its contractors. Even if not technically required to contract only with companies that pay a living wage, Harvard can make a company’s treatment of its workers a criterion for deciding contracts, in keeping with the standards to which Harvard holds itself on campus. Doing so, in this case by letting KTI know that the university cares about how it treats workers, would put significant pressure on companies to improve—pressure that they might not feel otherwise. Being a responsible customer is simple...
...think there is a kind of self-help payoff to my work, but it takes almost the opposite form of the love calculator. I spend a lot of my time trying to de-idealize love, to undermine the criterion of “success” in love. I have always been drawn to really tragic accounts of impossible love. I know lots of people find this really depressing, but somehow for me it’s sustaining. I guess it’s partly the solace of shared misery, but also I think it takes the pressure...