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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...
...Crimson (2-7, 1-4 EIWA) was unable to build on last week’s successes, suffering road losses to No. 19 Penn, 25-11, and Princeton—a defeat based on the eighth criterion of near falls after the teams battled to a 19-19 draw. The two losses drop the squad’s road record...
Steelcase, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., makes a 500-lb.-capacity office chair, Criterion Plus, that is 5 in. wider than the 18-in. standard and sells for $1,500. Countless hours of watching people at work and noticing how much larger they had become, says product manager Ken Tameling, convinced Steelcase engineers that the seat of their ergonomic Leap chair should be set at 20 in. They engineered its backrest to produce greater resistance when heavy people lean back, as well as attached arms that move laterally. All this, says Tameling, has helped make sales...