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...second criterion, variation, is all too plain to see in this set of religion memes. We have innumerable belief systems tailor-made for the wide-ranging habitats of human minds. We can even point to major “speciation” events such as the Reformation where a major mutation in one strain of meme (Catholicism) leads to a flowering of variation and variety of different memetic strains (Protestantism in all its divergent glory...
...years, in our own separately published guidebook, The Best College for You, TIME has named a group of Colleges of the Year, selected not as anointed "winners" of a ranking exercise but rather as exemplars--schools that have taken laudable steps to improve their undergraduate education. Each year our criterion has a different focus--from promoting minority access to providing academic opportunities for residents of the surrounding community. Last year we used the teaching of writing across the curriculum as our measure of success, and we named four Colleges of the Year that reflected the variety of postsecondary institutions...
Mike was intense and brilliant; he had a persistent devotion to excellence that was unusual by even the most stringent criterion. At the debate camp we attended in Colorado, he worked harder than anyone else and earned its highest recognition, the pretentiously-titled Philosopher King award. Nothing made Mike prouder than to see his efforts rewarded with recognition; he set high standards for himself and usually exceeded them triumphantly...
Friedman also argued that the law school's use of racial criterion was "indistinguishable from a straight quota system...
...have made a concerted study of movies with great shelf life. For several weeks, my criterion for renting a movie has been that it must have been made at least 50 years ago. I sometimes think that the awarding of Oscars should be delayed for 50 years, just to make sure a movie's got legs...