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...among the fiercest critics of the H. floresiensis theory and has been accused by Brown of damaging the bones while they were in his possession (a charge he denies), led an expedition to Rampasasa in April to determine if its residents could indeed be classified as Pygmies (the height threshold is 150 cm or shorter). Jacob measured more than 70 villagers and says 80% of them qualified. The theory that Thorne, Jacob and other like-minded anthropologists are propagating is that the Liang Bua female was an ancestor of a Rampasasa villager and a Pygmy, but that she suffered from...
First: Getting serious about foreign policy. Since 9/11, too many professional Democrats have viewed national security as a threshold to quickly cross before moving to domestic policy, rather than what it really is: their most important governing responsibility. Bill Clinton wrongly campaigned on the idea that the 2004 presidential election was a choice between “two strong men who’ll protect you” one of whom happened to be right on domestic issues...
...years at a time beyond their six-year limit. There should be an application process that takes into account consistently high Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) guide ratings, as well as the recommendations of the faculty teaching the courses in which these outstanding TFs work. As long as the threshold of achievement in teaching is high enough, TFs who are not both devoted to their students and exceptionally gifted at teaching will be unable to stay past the limit. We don’t believe that this policy will lead to a large amount of TFs staying past their expiration...
...members wandered in and out throughout the meeting, and Glazer had to count himself to meet the 26-member threshold...
...diversity. Jason L. Lurie ’05 has said that direct elections could limit diversity on the UC by raising the number of votes required to be elected from 26 percent to 51 percent. The theory goes that if minority voters vote in blocks, raising this threshold would diminish the power of those blocks, making a more diverse UC harder to achieve. Without questioning whether the student body is better off with reps elected by one of these blocks—minority candidates should appeal to a broad constituency, after all—the best solution would ultimately...