Word: standardism
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...schools, Harvard is forgetting to be itself. Harvard has a culture that fosters advanced academic work. By reducing the amount of time that students spend in concentrations—and jeopardizing Harvard’s tutorial system in the process—the delayed decision deadline will reduce the standard by which Harvard has traditionally measured mastery of a subject. Moreover, all of proposed solutions to salvage tutorials—shortening the tutorial, pushing the tutorial into junior year, or opening up the fall tutorial to non-concentrators—all compromise depth of exploration. Shortening of the tutorials forces...
...cure-all for tired concepts. In this case, “the video that’s just a band performing alternating with shots of them looking all pensive and anguished…in SPACE!” is not a significant improvement on the standard formula for sensitive rockers. Add in a poorly-CGI-ed extraterrestrial landscape, a barrage of stock footage of birds, and WWII bombers, and the result is nothing more than a confusing mess of slow-motion outer-space angst. —Elisabeth J. Bloomberg
...government. But Hamas is not typically prone to do the bidding of others, and could just as easily have remained silent on a bomb attack in Egypt. And viewed against the Hamas reponse to Osama bin Laden's latest tape, it appears to suggest a growing rift between the standard-bearers of Islamist politics in the Palestinian territories and the jihadists-without-borders element who would turn the Palestinian cause into a vehicle for their global campaign against the West...
...Chinese Internet market. (Google's China chief, Kai-Fu Lee, is among the more prominent Chinese-American executives in the country.) How He found her way back to the country of her birth is not unusual. After graduating from New York University she got a job at Standard & Poor's as a derivatives analyst. She had been "very happy," she says, living in New York's East Village after college, but a few years of "numbers crunching" at S&P bored her, "and I suddenly began thinking that I'd had this previous life, my life growing up in China...
...Administratively, it was not handled well,” Harvard coach Jenny Allard said. “We should not have played today. Baseball did not play; we should not play.”“There’s a little bit of a double standard,” she added. “Just because this team was here, we were forced to do everything we could to play, and we played in very poor conditions. I’ve got a shortstop and a second baseman that might have pulled muscles because they were playing...