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Others have proposed adding the median grade in each course to Harvard’s transcript, to be displayed next to each student’s actual grade in that class, as Dartmouth College does. But this step would be unnecessary if grades accurately reflected students’ mastery of course material and intellectual ability in the first place. If a C meant that you turned in acceptable but unexceptional work in a class, and an A meant that you excelled and drew your own innovative, original conclusions or demonstrated uncommon mastery of the application of the themes presented...
...course, same-sex couples can follow the letter if not the spirit of the rule. Michael A. Schuler ’02-’03 lives full time with his boyfriend, Samuel H. Perwin ’04. The arrangement means Schuler can now use his actual room as an “office,” as Perwin calls it—quite a luxury for campus living. And though the couple’s phone message includes both their names, it is possible to keep such arrangements secret from parents...
...cannot be denied that the pins do tend to appeal to people’s hearts rather than their minds, despite their actual symbolic meaning, but perhaps this is not all bad either. I am certain that most people (even those who favor abortion) would strongly object to the idea of a poor little dog being shredded by a chainsaw. But there are far too many people who feel no qualm about a human fetus being impaled by a sharp hook. I think that these insensitive people must be reminded that, although a fetus may look ugly, a fetus will...
Gayle: Are we judging the actual work itself, or the medium through which it is depicted? I haven’t heard anyone questioning what is actually said on the CD. All I’ve heard us questioning is the fact that it?...
...Almost half an hour of the movie takes place in boxing rings. Mann, a famous perfectionist, has meticulously restaged the actual fights, and Smith goes toe to toe with real fighters. Smith says the knockdown of Foreman (boxer Charles Shufford) was the most "grueling" sequence: "We did it over five days. Michael wanted everything, the angle of the bend in my wrist and the angle of my ankle and toe, to be perfect...