Word: rigor
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...utmost priority on cultivating the “student” in student-athletes. He staunchly supported a restriction upon Ivy League football teams that prevents them from competing in post-season playoffs. For Orleans, the Ivy League represents a special case among collegiate conferences in which the rigor of academics makes an extended season too costly for the learning environment. While this is a laudable stance to take in the name of preserving the strength of academics, in practice it is blatantly unfair. The inconsistency in the fact that 40 Harvard sports teams are eligible for post-season play...
...appearances, Romney approached the problem of winning the White House with the same rigor of the "strategic audits" that allowed him to earn more than $100 million as a business consultant at Bain Capital. Beginning shortly after his victory as Massachusetts governor, he appeared to shift his more moderate stances on a number of hot-button issues. In each case, his new position lined up remarkably well with the conservative base of the Republican Party. Just years after courting the gay vote in Massachusetts, Romney became a national spokesman for the sanctity of heterosexual marriage. After running two campaigns...
...business, sophomore school committee members Patricia M. Nolan ’80 and Luc D. Schuster made a motion to discuss at later date the possibility of integrating an International Baccalaureate (IB) program into the Cambridge school system. If the district incorporated the program, which is known for its rigor, into the high school curriculum, “there would be a hundred people who would come back to us from private schools,” Nolan said after the meeting. Fantini was the lone member to oppose discussion of incorporating the program, saying that doing so would...
...visual style, the movie has a formal rigor familiar to the serious European cinema: just about every scene, no matter how long, is shot without cutting. (The nearly two-hour film has fewer than 70 shots.) That's often an enervating strategy, but here it works marvelously, either forcing two characters together as reluctant conspirators or isolating each in his or her predicament. Bebe's examination of Gabi, and his insertion of the syringe, is accomplished in one harrowing shot. There's a bustling scene, at the birthday party of Otilia's boyfriend's mother, that becomes a kind...
...Johnson against another colorful maverick, the incumbent Ken Livingstone, a wily and resilient left-winger who has introduced tolls for cars entering central London and is promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed a detailed manifesto but speaks of increased "financial rigor" and an admiration for the education policies of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. He sums up his political philosophy in a pithy phrase, "Less bossiness, more incentives," explaining "I'm a libertarian. I think people should get on and run their lives as far as possible independently of bossiness...