Word: criterion
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...journals. The recent disclosure of misconduct by a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ellis Reinherz at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has lent a kind of scientific confirmation to the occurrence of fraud at Harvard. The professional misbehavior has been independently repeated, gaining the same criterion of reliability that the errant scientists' research could...
Basing jurisdiction on that criterion wouldallow cases stemming from plagiarism or relativelymundane infractions of academic rules to go beforethe Ad Boards while sending cases such as thoseinvolving harassment to the new group, FacultyCouncil members said...
...still a little unclear what the criterion would actually be for sending a case to the [new] disciplinary committee or to the Ad Board," said Faculty Council member Harry R. Lewis '68, McKay Professor of Computer Science...
...everyone is enthusiastic. "It is meaningless to describe anything as avant-garde today," says Hilton Kramer, editor of the New Criterion. "Once you had a success on the order of pop art in the early '60s, it was no longer possible to define anything as avant-garde because there was no longer anything that met with resistance. Once what was formerly regarded as avant- garde was embraced by the mainstream, you simply had novelty." While Kramer admits Wilson's work has an audience, he is nevertheless dismissive. "I think it's a terrible bore. But people of mainstream culture...
Sleight of hand: Reagan is the first complete television President. The implications of that mastery are unsettling. Says Political Scientist James David Barber of Duke University: "Television news is very heavy on feelings. There is always a temptation to reduce the question to sentiment. Reagan's criterion of validity is theatrical rather than empirical...