Word: orly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In his dissent, Judge White argued that the standard applied by the majority was unnecessarily restrictive. Expert testimony on Johnson's sanity had gone both ways, and U.S. Supreme Court precedent, White stated, would allow a new trial or sentencing if there was a "reasonable probability" of a different outcome...
At the highest levels of its 10 schools, Harvard has had only one minority dean without "assistant," or "associate" in his title, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Venkatesh Narayanamurti. But because his department is within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, even Narayanamurti isn't technically on the...
"Most wanted to go on to professional school and make money or do good in a big way," he says. "An office in University Hall does not seem to appeal to our upwardly mobile students."
"I can buy the point that you might be more intrigued if the person looked like you, but I don't think that that is a qualifier or an essential or a requirement," Gomes says.
"If I had waited for that, I wouldn't be doing what I am doing," he says. "It's more important to have access to a mentor or role model...I don't think that the mentoring relationship would necessarily be fostered by more minority administrators."