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What exactly does a B+ mean? Many students have no idea. Jennifer Sessions '96, a concentrator in history and literature, says, "The thing about the B+ is that you don't know whether it's good or bad. After the whole grade inflation thing, I have one person telling me...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: #2: The Harvard Uncertainty Principle: The B+ Means Everything; Therefore, The B+ Means Nothing | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

Since her appointment to the Office of Human Resources in June of 1992, Patrick has gained the respect of Harvard administrators and some workers as a competent manager who brought direction to a historically listless office.

Author: By Sarahe E. Scrogin, | Title: Harvard May Lose Patrick | 3/2/1994 | See Source »

Of course, characters aren't everything; the success of the Pudding also depends on the music. The Pudding score follows the Chinese Restaurant Menu system of composition: one from column A. one from column B...the torch song, the love-duet, the Big Production Number At The End Of The...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Kicklines at the Colosseum | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

But my fellow graduate students, far from absorbing these radical thinkers, ran off after dull, pedantic European poststructuralists, who were trapped in cynical semantic mindgames that my generation had ditched when we substituted Elvis Presley for gloom and doom Samuel Beckett. Despite their inflated reputations, none of the French theorists...

Author: By Camille Paglia, | Title: An Open Letter to the Students of Harvard | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

The latest book is a novel, The Vicar of Sorrows (Norton; 391 pages; $23), about a lost Anglican clergyman. It represents the author's serious side, but the material is a bit balky. Handsome, remote Francis Kreer, vicar of St. Birinus, no longer believes in God or loves his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doomsyear | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

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