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...method of delay is simple: Ashcroft, says Leahy, is to provide written answers to more than 150 written questions. (Senator Hatch is on the record calling at least some of the questions "too personal" in nature; given the sheer number, one can only imagine the minutiae into which many of the queries must delve...
...ideal world, Harvard's admissions policy, which was cited approvingly by the Supreme Court in the 1978 University of California Regents v. Bakke case, is the model method toward which other schools should strive. Although Harvard acknowledges that race is one factor in the deliberation process, there is no explicit point system, meaning that an individual can be considered independently of any rigid scale. This allows for a more nuanced approach that places race within the context of an applicant's whole life experience...
...standards rest on less than hard science, the methods for determining whether a cell phone meets them look even more arbitrary. The testing procedure involves beaming radio waves into a "phantom"--or stand-in for a human head--and measuring the amount of energy absorption. The results hinge on how near the radiation source is to the phantom and just where it is pointed. Yet there is no agreed-upon method for conducting these tests--an astonishing omission that the IEEE and its European counterpart hope to remedy this year. "Until there is a single, uniform measuring standard...
...them to start making music. The Chicks decided they could be a real band without actually knowing how to play, and they were soon releasing singles and, eventually, full-length albums. "We have an idea for a text and a general idea about the music," says Moorse, explaining their method, "and then the producers finish it." Steeped in the influence of both avant-garde '70s new-wave bands and slick '90s techno, they have created an irresistible sound, in which synthesizers, samples and drum machines collide with catchy rock hooks and English lyrics that are half sung and half spoken...
...Hulsey received notes from women in D.C., Chicago, New York, London and other locales. Although only one undergraduate e-mailed him, a number of women at the Law School, who were in the midst of exams at the time, found out that e-mailing Hulsey was a great procrastination method...