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...Michelle Drake '97-'96, who chairs the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard, closed the debate by saying that because she believes the anti-discrimination policy is linked to University politics, and using it as a criterion for council representation is inappropriate...
...huge obstacle in Jenkins' way, despite his statement that experience is not a necessary criterion for a good council executive, is that his lack of council experience renders him unknown to most members voting in tomorrow's election...
...These professorships have not been assigned to particular subject areas, but the key criterion for the allocation of the new chairs will be teaching need," Knowles and Dominguez respond in their letter...
...what I did at that point as an appropriate and positive thing, something I should be rewarded for," Johnson said yesterday. "If that is used as a negative criterion in evaluating my candidacy [for the assistant deanship], then what that says is that a positive criteria would have been that someone in a similar situation would not have said that...
...getting genes into the next generation was, for better or worse, the criterion by which the human mind was designed. Mental traits conducive to genetic proliferation are the traits that survived. They are what constitute our minds today; they are us, we are designed to steer genes through a technologically primitive social structure. The good news is that doing this job entailed some quite pleasant feelings. Because social cooperation improves the chances of survival, natural selection imbued our minds with an infrastructure for friendship, including affection, gratitude and trust. (In technical terms, this is the machinery for "reciprocal altruism...