Word: rigors
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...changed. "It's a lot clearer now," the playwright says. "And the humor has been brought out." Fans of Shepard's chiseled appearance can stay at home. He doesn't intend to do Broadway himself. "I wouldn't want to act onstage," he says. "I don't have the rigor for it." Followers of his work have more luck: Shepard's collection of short stories, Cruising Paradise...
...regret that two of Harvard's largest departments, in trying to make their requirements more palatable to students, are diluting their curricula. In order to retain its academic reputation, Harvard should encourage its departments to retain their rigor. We encourage the Educational Policy Committee, headed by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, to consider these decisions seriously and make recommendations in the future to preserve Harvard's academic integrity...
...letter to Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 ("Dean Lewis Should Respond Positively to Students," April 9, 1996) is so disrespectful it borders on the scandalous. I will not even try to refute Ms. Russek's specious argumentation for changing the term "freshman" to "first-year," though her lack of rigor is alarming, I am much more shocked by her vicious personal attack on Dean Lewis...
Even if it were possible to define "indecent" with some degree of rigor, the bill would still be fatally flawed because the Internet is simply too dynamic and fluid to effectively regulate. For example, a private e-mail sent from one person to another can easily find its way onto a bulletin board where it is accessible to the public. Thus, the four Cornell first-years who recently authored an infamous e-mail which insulted women and used four-letter words could well have found themselves in trouble with the federal government. It doesn't matter that their e-mail...
...members of the first team were selected based on their individual scholarship, their leadership roles on and off campus, the rigor of their academic pursuits and their ability to express themselves in writing...