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Curll said admissions officers spend more time looking at the non-quantifiable aspects of an application, which she classified as character, commitment and context, than on the numbers...
...allowed same-gender sexual-harassment cases to proceed. So the attitude seems to be, "You can sue for almost anything; but once in court, the bar will be set very high." Courts have settled on this compromise because they know that sexual-harassment cases involve a mountain of individual context. Cases can evolve remarkably once all the evidence is presented to a judge--which is why some relatively minor cases are allowed to proceed (including one involving a Miller Brewing Co. employee who accused a colleague of sexual harassment after he described a randy Seinfeld episode), and why some egregious...
...sometimes been seen as hardly more than a work unit in some impersonal equation. A "small number" were killed, Mao once said of the death of 70,000, and in his Great Leap Forward, at least 20 million more were sacrificed to a leader's theories. In that context, the man before the tank seems almost a counter-Mao, daring to act as the common-man hero tirelessly promoted by propaganda and serving as a rebuke--or asterisk, at least--to the leaders and revolutionaries who share these pages...
Members of the advisory board choose to fund the center partly because of its affiliation with Harvard, which gives the research a context, according to Repsinas...
...make a couple of distinctions. First off, about half of the responses to the "noir" web search were wine-related sites, dedicated to connoisseurs of the pinot noir vintage. Of the remaining 800 sites, maybe one fourth were French web sites simply using the word in its native context--for example "le rinoceros noir," an informative page dedicated to the black rhino. That leaves approximately 600 sites related to the conventional idea of noir, and of those sites, the majority were fairly ordinary, academically or intellectually-oriented pages, shrines to Bogart or Blade Runner, homages to Elmore Leonard or James...