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...reason this virus was unusual was because it affected a large number of people," said Daniel A. Lopez '97, president-elect of the Harvard Computer Society. Lopez, whose machine was not infected, said that more than 100 people have called HASCS to complain about the virus...
...Your instructors will see everything you write. Everybody is familiar with the sanitized, official jargon used by the nice people who publish the CUE Guide. If 90 percent of the students in a course complain that a professor didn't understand his material, this will be reported as "a significant percentage of students had some difficulty following the lectures," "Professor Quigley's last original thought came in the 1950's" becomes "while students applaud Professor Quigley's mastery of the history of his field, they long for the inclusion of more contemporary perspectives." And so on. But though the world...
...boring to complain about grades. Another fiction is that the evaluation process has nothing to do with grades. Students, it is said, fill out their evaluations before they take their finals, which gives them a more balanced view of the course they're taking. But this is hopelessly naive. By the time CUE evaluations are filled out, students have a pretty good idea what they're going to get in their courses; they've taken midterms, handed in papers and so on. There is often a direct correlation between the grades they've been given and the evaluations they...
...Economists complain about inflation in general--grade inflation is just another example," says John McHale, head teaching fellow in Social Analysis 10, the largest course taught at the College. "If it could be avoided it would be better...
...Bosnian Muslims, Dole argued, it might not now be necessary for U.S. soldiers to enforce the peace agreement, an accord whose ultimate goal is to strengthen the Bosnians so they can defend themselves when the U.S. leaves. As a consistent opponent of the embargo, Dole had the standing to complain. But the heart of the matter, he said on the Senate floor, is simple: "The troops are on their way. We cannot stop their deployment," and they deserve "our support...