Word: outliers
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Sarah Thomas, president of ARL and University Librarian at Cornell University, called Stanford an “outlier,” questioning Keller’s ability to judge the organization’s merits...
What’s going on here? The government normally doesn’t dust off anachronistic old laws unless it’s out to make a point, and this is no exception. It might be reassuring if the Greenpeace case were just a weird outlier. But it’s not. It is emblematic of a concerted effort by the White House and its allies to curb unwelcome dissent...
Shulman himself says Harvard could be “a complete outlier,” saying he and Bowen have not yet examined data from Harvard...
...more governments start to think along such lines, Washington risks looking like an outlier. When the U.S. asserts a self-centered policy on, say, missile defense or global warming, it is speaking a language that many others now consider archaic. (Not all: remember China.) In fact, even in America, the old ways of thinking about foreign policy are visibly under threat. It is American-led NGOs who have argued loudest for humanitarian intervention and for elevating the environment into an issue of foreign policy. Perhaps most interestingly, 25 years of mass immigration to the U.S. - the bulk of it from...