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...combination of Internet and mobile communication has lowered the threshold for collective action of all kinds,” he said...
...HOTMAIL The filters built in to MSN's free mail service are easy to manage and work reasonably well. Using a simple menu, you set the threshold from moderate to exclusive. The highest level accepts email only from people listed in your address book or from domains you put on your safe list (newsletters you subscribe to, websites you've shopped at, etc.). You can have spam deleted immediately, but if you've chosen the most aggressive filtering option, you'll probably want to set up a junk-mail folder that you can scan for false positives (then retrieve them...
Fithian says he feels many of the students who were upset about the change misunderstand the threshold of “independent corroborating information” that is now required for a full investigation...
...complaint to the U.S. Department of Education alleging that the new rule violated the gender-equity regulations laid out under Title IX. While the complaint itself was not decided in the student’s favor, the move did succeed in forcing Harvard to scale back its evidentiary threshold from “independent corroborating evidence” to “corroborating evidence,” to the current standard of “supporting information” in a series of quiet modifications to the handbook’s webpage guidelines...
...lived in Mather House, Costello estimates that he has bought roughly 500 40-ounce beers from his favorite corner store, a habit that has become so ingrained that the man behind the counter readies his special 40-ounce-sized paper bag the moment Costello walks through the threshold. One rainy night before finals however, Costello’s regular pattern was broken when he reached to pay for his two 40s and packet of Sour Patch Kids only to be interrupted by “Louie” presenting him with a free bottle of champagne...