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However, his junior year, he earned a B, B-plus and A-minus in three government courses...
...gets seamless ensemble work from the year's most agreeable, most cannily chosen cast. These, after all, are not-quite stars playing not-quite supermen. They grow in the roles as they grow comfortable in them. By the end they have cobbled together an A-minus comedy about B-plus people. Every other action picture is about the impossibly outsize Them; this one is about the just barely heroic Us. It's about making the best of your small talents--about looking in the mirror and, despite all evidence to the contrary, smiling back...
...always sneaks up on us. Whether it means we're writing reams of pedantic essays or botching hundreds of exams, chances are good that this week has brought almost every Harvard undergraduate to the precipice of academic catastrophe--or at the very least, to the precipice of the dreaded B-plus. But we often forget that it is actually the week after midterms, not the midterm week itself, that is crucial to our academic success. Next week, our papers and midterms will come back to us graded. And right now, our fate is entirely in the hands of one individual...
...says he'd give the Web a B-plus, even an A-minus, that on balance it is a force for good. Yet an "accident of fate" has compromised its goodness. And that accident is intertwined with--perhaps, perversely, even caused by--his decision back in 1992 to take the road less traveled. The question that fascinates people who have heard of Berners-Lee--Why isn't he rich?--may turn out to have the same answer as the question that fascinates him: Why isn't the World Wide Web better than...
...other value most in evidence in American education today is self-esteem. Instead of holding students to "rigorous academic standards," our schools and universities aim to make their charges feel good about themselves and their ethnic identities. Harvard, where the average grade of all courses is above B-plus, is a full participant--no, a leader--in feel-good education...