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Harvard's grading system will now resemble that of rivals Stanford, whose faculty voted in May to discontinue letter grades, and Yale, which has had a pass-fail system since the 1960s. Proponents of broader grade categories typically point to decreased competitiveness and enhanced freedom to explore intellectually without concern for academic penalty in their justifications of the system...
...Mabry's account of the Rice-Aziz encounter spawned a minor media storm in Pakistan, but like it, the furor over the Zardari-Palin meeting will likely soon be forgotten. With an economy in free fall and militancy on the rise, Pakistanis have little time to concern themselves for too long over how their President comports himself...
...trips to Firefly Press in Allston, a modern letterpress shop, and to Houghton Library. Russem was initially worried that there wouldn’t be enough demand for the course. But after registration closed Sunday night and there were enough applications to fill the class three times over, his concern turned to the Press itself. Years of being under-funded have taken its toll on the B&A. “It’s a small space and some parts walk that fine line between charming and chaotic,” Russem says. But Jacoby, Sifuentes, and other volunteers...
Oliver Hart, a former chairman of the Harvard economics department, signed the letter out of a concern that the bailout plan is being created in an unnecessary rush...
...main concern with the bailout plan is that there are no real provisions to increase the financial health of the banking sector,” Scharfstein said. “The government should include an increase in capital requirements as part of the bill and force the banks to issue stock, recapitalize, and put themselves in a healthier financial situation...