Word: standardism
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...deans and professors, and we will not allow their demands for a better workplace to go ignored. As a university, Harvard can choose to be a microcosm reflecting society’s worst ills (oppression, discrimination, inequality), or it can choose to push forward and set the standard for which all workplaces hope to reach...
...three distinct categories. First, there are the prime-timers - Boston's David "Big Papi" Ortiz and Travis Hafner of the Cleveland Indians, who are both DH-ing at the peak of their careers. "Ortiz and Hafner are two of the best four hitters in baseball right now, by any standard that's valid," says Indians General Manager Mark Shapiro. It's hard to argue with him - Hafner, 29, hit .308 with 42 homers in 2006, and Ortiz, 31, not only led the American League with 54 home runs last season, but is by far the best clutch hitter...
...that seems much more an Asian precept than a Hollywood one. (Which suggests that the U.S. remake Universal Pictures was planning is due for a vigorous rewrite.) It's also worlds removed from what happened in Blacksburg. That was closer to a standard American revenge scenario, where the hero takes violent action against those he thinks wronged him. (Death Wish, anyone?) And don't forget that the weapon of choice in Oldboy was a hammer, which no one planning a mass murder would pack in his arsenal...
...first significant federal gun control law, passed back in 1968 in reaction to the Kennedy assassination five years earlier, prohibited anyone involuntarily committed to a mental institution from buying firearms. Forty years later, that still remains the standard for most federal and state gun buying restrictions. The problem is that involuntary commitment was the norm four decades ago; family members, doctors and law enforcement could easily commit troubled souls to psychiatric hospitals with scant paperwork and little concern for individual or privacy rights. When Cho agreed to a voluntary committal to a psychiatric facility in 2005, he was benefiting from...
...least one prominent gun rights advocate admits that the 1968 gun-buying mental health standard might give people like Cho too much benefit of the doubt. Stephen P. Halbrook, a constitutional lawyer who recently was involved in the appeals court victory for gun rights advocates challenging the Washington, D.C., handgun prohibition law, thinks the time may have come for a reconsideration of those 1968 guidelines. "I'm not going to advocate new restrictions, with the exception that it should be at least a consideration that people with disabilities who have been adjudicated to be mentally ill and a danger...