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...about the value of taking courses with senior Faculty over their junior compatriots, and about the ability of the Core Program to recruit additional courses given the regulatory burdens it imposes, and about the supposed substantive nature of Core courses, and about the viability of a ways-of-thinking criterion for the Core in the face of intra-field multiplications of approach, and about the intellectual rationale for adding a Quantitative Reasoning Core subfield but allowing students to opt out of an additional one of their choosing, and about the willingness of the Core subcommittees to expand their understanding...
...Cambridge City Council unanimously approved an amendment to the Human Rights Ordinance which added "gender" as a criterion which could not be used for discrimination in matters of housing, education, employment, or public accommodation. Here, gender is defined to be "the actual or perceived appearance, expression, or identity of a person with respect to masculinity and femininity." In addition, the ordinance was amended to redefine "same sex" to mean "occupying the same social and identity roles as another with respect to being male or female." The term "same sex" is used in the ordinance to allow single-sex educational institutions...
...perhaps, but certainly not moral conviction. The administration must explain the discrepancy between its two contrasting policies not just so that it can avoid the embarrassment of a hostile international community, but more importantly, because it is the promise of American democracy to aim higher than our neighbors' low criterion of convenience...
...remark leaked by a White House aide relegating Albright to the "second tier," met twice with Gore to remind him and his boss how much they owed the soccer moms for their re-election. By then Albright was the one candidate to score at least a B on every criterion, piling up the fewest enemies or flaws. Still Clinton hesitated, turning over the mix to see if he had got it just right. As late as midweek, he was asking Senators and friends, "If you had to decide, what would you do?" It wasn't until 9 p.m. last Wednesday...
...reason why we should be less free than other Americans. I sincerely hope that eventually most of our fellow citizens will be able to understand our love for each other. But nowhere in the Constitution of the United States does the word comfortable appear as a criterion for the full enjoyment of the rights accorded to every American citizen. In fact, this nation's founders went to great pains to protect an unpopular minority from the tyranny of a majority...