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Brutus is now waiting for the State Department's recommendation. Elliot Abrams, assistant secretary of state for human rights, who is handling the case personally, says that the decision will be made by the end of March. The general criterion used by the State Department, according to Abrams, is that the applicant demonstrate "a well-founded fear of persecution" if he were to be deported Brutus says that he satisfies this criterion. If he were forced to return to South Africa, he believes that, at the very least, he would be thrown into prison. And if he were deported...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz and Jonathan G. Cedarbaum, S | Title: A Poet Against Apartheid | 3/24/1982 | See Source »

...read in your paper that Achievement Tests are new considered the best single criterion for deciding who goes to Harvard. The Achievement Tests are designed to find out who has learned specific information in high school. But the problem with using such a test is that not all high schools even reach this information. So bright students who go to such high schools (most public high schools in the South, for example) are at a disadvantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tests | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...change has been in the cards for a long time," Toner said by added that stadium size should not be a criterion for football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidents Question Ivy Drop in NCAA | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...December 4 meeting the Association eliminated the criterion, but retained the requirement that a division member's stadium have a minimum capacity of 30,000 seats and average of 17,000 paid spectators per game. Harvard presently meets these requirements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidents Question Ivy Drop in NCAA | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...already exist as painting, edifice and book; they are frozen in time. By its very nature, however, an opera (or play, for that matter) exists by reconstructing it anew from its blueprint. There is no aesthetic rule that says something cannot be left out or rearranged. The only valid criterion is: Does the work embody the spirit of the original vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 11, 1982 | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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