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...Sciences (FAS) is the center of Harvard, the truth remains that Harvard is not an institution consisting solely of undergraduates, their professors, and members of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Under the existing governing institutions, a single faculty can both too easily be dismissed as an outlier and too easily generalized as representative of the larger University. Last February, when FAS voted “no-confidence” in Summers, confusion ensued. Was this emblematic of widespread discontent throughout the University? More recently, the dearth of support from FAS—presumed by those outside...
...trespassing in a public park on charges that he was trying to overthrow the Mugabe regime. This incident was an isolated one. It in no way reflects the general condition of all nations that merit a medium-level warning from the State Department. If anything, the incident is an outlier that illustrates the caution that students must be prepared to take when traveling abroad to certain places. Police states like Zimbabwe—with unpredictable laws and where tactics like arrest may be veiled attempts at extorting bribes from foreigners—are uniquely dangerous. But their study can yield...
DYSON: It's much harder to maintain power when everything is transparent, when there's always someone, some outlier coming in, when the discussion is never closed. I don't even think that Google has that much power because its hold on it is tentative. It can easily be eroded...
...Romaine's, which would be fined into extinction if the FCC had its way. This being satellite radio, whose subscribers pay a $12.95 monthly fee, the content cops have no say in what's beamed down from Sirius' three satellites. And Sirius is taking full advantage of its outlier status to serve up fare you would never hear over the AM/FM dial, from frat-boy channels like Maxim Radio to hip-hop so crude it might make Eminem blush...
...federal rebuttal could also come in the form of hefty fines. Texas, for example, could be slapped with far larger penalties. It is currently exempting 9% of students from taking grade-level tests, claiming they are special ed. The Education Department allows only 3%. "Texas is an outlier," warned Spellings, who is from Texas, in April. "I intend to take a very strong approach." As for Utah, the state risks losing up to $76 million in federal funds if it defies No Child, which it looks likely to do under...