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...pairs tie on overall scores, judges use the artistic-merit score to break the tie. But if skating is truly a sport, how can a championship rest on the more loosely defined artistic merit? The technical score, which is much less open to interpretation, should be the ultimate criterion...
...thus measure Bush as a wartime President by one simple criterion. He basically told the Secretary of Defense, Please fight and please win. He set no constraints. And by these lights, I rate George Bush very highly. Whether it is because of the simplicity, the stark nature of Sept. 11 or because of Texan pugnacity, I know not which, but he has acted right...
Newly-installed Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons presented on Monday a plan to eliminate financial need as a criterion in admissions decisions...
UC’s president, Richard C. Atkinson, proposed nine months ago to remove the SAT as a criterion for admissions at the nine university campuses within his system. As head of one of the nation’s most influential and wide-ranging public university systems, Atkinson has brought unprecedented new attention to the issue...
...opponents are right in that these clubs are vestiges from the times when old money reigned and blue-bloodedness was an important criterion for Harvardians. In the first half of the century, a student could truly feel that he was part of an exclusive power structure if he was accepted into a final club...