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Although these statistics might make even a Hoopes prize winner uneasy, just because a student isn’t performing up to par doesn’t mean that he or she is immediately getting kicked to the curb. Midway through the semester, instructors are asked to alert the Registrar’s Office of any difficulties that a student may be having. According to Freshman Dean Wendy Torrance, the “hope is that students will meet with course instructors, advisers, and with us, to discuss what may be contributing to their poor performance.” Similar...
Another way of putting it is that Dewis’ performance is as good as Levy’s is ill-conceived. Her performance is hot-blooded, alert, thoroughly aware—and eminently unbelievable. Levy isn’t untalented, because her blue-moon moments of credibility here are clearly instinctual. But her Hedda is recklessly artificial and horribly overplanned. For a while, I thought that her cartoonishness might have been the point of her performance; but, in truth, many of her Harvard turns (most egregiously in The Waverly Gallery and Chess, but even in minor twaddle like Ivory...
...program from sharealot.com a yellow icon of a digital camera will appear on your desktop. Select the "create a new share" option, and follow the clear directions for selecting and sending pictures. Files are automatically compressed to save upload and download time. When the photos reach their destination, an alert pops up on the computer, and recipients can immediately click to view the already downloaded shots. ShareALot works on Macs and PCs; recipients need the program too to see the photos...
...involves inflammation. As the body's first line of defense against invading bugs, it's the reason that cuts swell and turn red as immune cells flood in to attack the microbes. Fat, when it builds up in plaques inside heart vessels, can launch the same type of alert, causing the plaques to rupture and lead to a heart attack. Ridker exploited this response by measuring inflammation with a specific marker of the process, C-reactive protein (CRP). CRP is easily picked up in the blood and reliably indicates how much inflammation is occurring in the heart--and thus...
...Israely Following the Money UNITED NATIONS Secretary General Kofi Annan launched an independent inquiry into allegations of corruption relating to the U.N.'s Iraq oil-for-food program. The panel is to investigate claims that top U.N. officials were among those involved in defrauding the $67 billion program. Terror Alert BRITAIN In raids in northern and central England, police arrested 10 people of North African and Iraqi Kurd origin on suspicion of terrorism. Authorities refused to comment on reports that the 10 were planning a bomb attack on soccer club Manchester United's stadium, but stepped up security...