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...Admission to the club can be dicey for the club’s small membership. “The first criterion is that the man be a jolly fellow,” says Greenway, “you don’t have to be a captain of industry.” The club that counted John F. Kennedy ’40 and Eliott Richardson ’41 among its members, now still attract some of the most vibrant intellectuals of the city. New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis ‘48, author James Carroll, a substantial...
Radcliffe may return to that original criterion if it awards the Fay prize next year, Armini said...
...Merkel of moviedom 47 Engrossed with 49 Chechen President ___ Maskhadov (Bush didn't know his name either) 51 She backs Bush 53 The ___ (TV hit set in New Jersey) 56 Frankfurt's river 57 Network on which 53-Across appears 58 ___ show (e.g., Greed or Millionaire) 59 Scholarship criterion 60 Immigrant's subj. 61 Part of R.S.V.P...
...performance criterion] was to have the system up and running, and they still don't have the system up and running. By any measurable standard they are not fully operational," said Tracey Robinson, assistant director for systems management for the Harvard University Library...
Especially troubling is his identification of "moral worth" as a quality which should be rewarded in an ideal meritocracy. While this opinion makes intuitive sense, its implementation as a criterion for selecting outstanding individuals would be much more discriminatory than the use of intelligence tests. For all of its inadequacies, the SAT does not attempt to test opinions. Any selection based on "morals," on the other hand, would reward those who agree with those in power about what is and is not "morally good." Suddenly, anyone who is pro-choice or pro-life, a fundamentalist or an atheist, could...