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...manage. Thus college choices tend to be irreversible, and the competition between schools is not expected to behave as a free market after the senior year of high school. Finally, much of Harvard's funding comes from indirect costs on research grants by the federal government; the primary criterion for such funding is the effectiveness of research, not the responsiveness of a school to the opinions of its undergraduates...
...have been painfully clear to even the most common of commoners that Diana wasn't selected for the princess job on the basis of intelligence or loyalty or wit. The qualifications were simple: she had to be a presentable Protestant from the upper class and a virgin. The last criterion has to do less with morality than with the purity of the product. She was, to put it crudely, enlisted as a breeder, charged with the job of transmitting the Windsor genes from Charles to his eventual replacements--"an heir and a spare," as some British delicately describe her sons...
...grandmother's criterion, it's simple--was it good for the Jews?" he joked, saying that the philosopher Maimonides would have topped her list...
...Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, students are only allowed to grade material that is "objectively right or wrong." This requirement reduces student TFs to grading machines, simply checking off words or numbers as they appear. No knowledge of subject matter or skills of assessment are necessary for this job. Under this criterion, anyone at all could grade work for any class...
...threatened her with blackmail. Dole's camp denies that, calling her "hysterical." But the incident played into Huffington's hand, showing the Dole campaign overreacting to a mere newspaper column. "She's married to a rich man," sputtered Dole campaign spokesman Nelson Warfield, "and if that's the criterion, Zsa Zsa Gabor should be on the Sunday talk shows." Her seriousness has also been questioned on account of her past association with California cult leader John-Roger...