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...framed by a spectacular slide in Enron's stock price from over $80 in January to $30 in October to less than $4 at Wednesday?s opening bell - and punctuated only hours later with the one-two punch that looks to have finished Enron off. That would be the downgrade Wednesday morning of Enron?s corporate debt to "junk" status - a bit of paperwork that instantly adds something like $10 billion in debt to Enron?s towering stack of bills - and the abrupt termination by Dynegy of the planned rescue...
This solution solves all of the problems caused by grade inflation, with a few added benefits. With rank, there would be no difficulty in guaranteeing a bell curve in every class. Gone will be the days of the Gentleman’s A—we can standardize the grade distributions across ranking, so that the smartest students are clearly distinguishable from the class dregs. Class rank will reintroduce a healthy dose of competition between students, reinvigorating the incentive system that grade inflation has dulled. Employers will have an easy time making distinctions between students, and Harvard will once again...
...truth remains—Harvard students study, and Harvard students study late at night. Lamont Library, the main study facility used by undergraduates, currently closes its doors at 12:45 a.m. on most weekdays—and warns its students to pack their bags with a jarring bell at 12:30 a.m. Unfortunately, this deadline is too early to accomodate many students’ study habits, and it often interrupts students in the prime of their reading and reviewing...
...sturdy pilgrim forefathers were replaced with crowd-pleasing boasts of having made the skies safer. But now there's real worry among the 535 men and women who have come back to the capitol that Congress might still be pulling hair and calling names when the Christmas break bell goes...
...class. It could be argued that the brightest students will shine no matter what, and that grade inflation is more a problem for students in the middle of the class, between whom it becomes impossible to draw distinctions when grades are inflated. To this I respond that a bell-curve shaped distribution, with a concentration of grades in the middle, is only natural. Indeed, grade inflation’s most virulent decriers still advocate such a distribution, only centered around a C rather than a B or B+. But as long as the grades at the very top are rarefied...