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Harvard came under fire for its grade inflation after a 2001 Boston Globe article reported that 91 percent of graduating students received honors. The Faculty voted to cap the overall number of honors given at 60 percent at the same time that they changed the GPA to a four-point scale...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report: Grade Inflation Persists | 5/9/2007 | See Source »

...stiller than Mitt Romney when he’s ambushing varmints on the hunt. A paparazzi-snapped candid of a Bay State hero’s dastardly betrayal stared me in the face. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had been photographed mid-stride, smugly bedecked in a Yankees cap. What treachery...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Ball Cap Betrayal! | 5/6/2007 | See Source »

Beantown transplants may question why such a trivial issue would garner front-page coverage in a major newspaper, but true Bostonians would never doubt the relevance of the Herald’s lurid press account. The Tom Brady ball cap controversy only underscores the importance of the Red Sox in local culture—a team beloved by New Englanders for the egalitarian, working class values it embodies...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Ball Cap Betrayal! | 5/6/2007 | See Source »

...this bipolar world of baseball superpowers, it should come as little surprise that Tom Brady was excoriated in the press for wearing the enemy’s baseball cap. As Joseph McCarthy exposed anti-American activity through tactics of humiliation over 50 years ago, so too is the Herald exposing Brady’s apparent anti-Bay State leanings. This is a matter of the utmost importance to members of Red Sox nation. If Brady is the victim of a witch-hunt, he can take solace in the tragic demonization of Alger Hiss before...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Ball Cap Betrayal! | 5/6/2007 | See Source »

...most popular option is what we’re going to call the glacier—a combination of sapphire blue and the white cap,” DAPA Steven A. Strott ’07 said, referring to the smorgasbord of bottle and cap colors...

Author: By Raviv Murciano-goroff and Shoshana S. Tell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: University Gives Out Nalgenes, Information | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

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