Word: superiors
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...which we view plagiarism, it [the decision] seems to me the only proper outcome." Bowen added the hope that the disciplinary action would make the student "a better and stronger" person. Napolitano responded by securing the services of a New Jersey law firm, which filed suit in New Jersey Superior Court. "My whole purpose is to avoid having the label of plagiarist attached to me for the rest of my life," Napolitano insisted in an interview with TIME. "I really didn't feel that I was given a fair hearing." She claims that due process, as well...
Boys do better at math, girls have superior language skills, or so the popular wisdom has it. For years, scientists and educators have been seeking a biological basis for these perceived differences between the sexes. The latest finding is reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. Neurologist Daniel B. Hier and Internist William F. Crowley gave intelligence tests to 19 men with a rare disorder that inhibits the pubertal surge of male hormones, androgens. The subjects scored lower than normal males on tests of spatial ability, the capacity to visualize and mentally manipulate objects in space...
Here as elsewhere, Bok seeks to lay down an ethical line. The practice of hiring minority professors preferentially, he writes, "threatens to diminish the academic enterprise by lowering the quality of teaching and research." Rather than promoting justice, he says, preferential hiring practices "unfairly penalizes candidates of superior ability while holding little promise of achieving greater equality in the society as a whole...
...Hussain, then a resident at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, was convicted last year with Drs. Alan Lefkowitz and Eugene Sherry of cooperating in the repeated rape of a woman they met a mutual friend's party. Superior Court Judge Walter Steele had the option of handing down prison sentences in excess of 20 years because each man was held responsible for all three attacks. The average penalty for the crime in Massachusetts is an 11-year term. The defendants received suspended sentences under which they would have to spend six months in jail. "Another case where...
...Vietnamese man accused of throwing a firebomb at one of the speakers at a Harvard panel discussion on Victnamese affairs last April was found innocent by reason of insanity last week, in Middlesex Superior Court...