Word: deviationism
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“What has happened in the Berkowitz case,” he continued, “is that Harvard has been allowed to get away with not a slight deviation from its own rules and procedures but with a massive end-run around the heart of its promises...
The minimum Academic Index (AI), a measure of eligibility that incorporates SAT scores and GPA or class rank on a 240-point scale, was also raised from 169 to 171, and a requirement was added that the mean AI of recruited athletes be no more than one standard deviation below...
For Byrd, history not only teaches the importance of rules and precedent but also offers warnings for the present. Deviation from democratic process can, he says, cloak an attempt "to dominate all branches of government." For that reason, Byrd says, "this Republic is at its greatest danger in its history...
The traditional world of marriages arranged by matchmakers is a part of life in Anatevka; the daughters’ deviation from that tradition presents a challenge to the old order, according to director Rachel D. Galper ’05.
But India's deviation from secularism has not diluted the faith Kashmiris have in it. Their moderate Sufi-based culture and value system is still the predominant ethic despite their persecution. One of the more startling findings of the Nielsen poll was that more than 95% of the valley's...