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...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...
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?...