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Petty orators and ambitious essayists who like to eulogize protest movements may want to remember the effort of Harvard Medical School students in the fall of 1973 to ambush their faculty and change the grading plan. For that protest, which left the group with an ingenious system to west the...
Sir / Experiments in pass/fail grading [Feb. 4] are failing mainly because they originated not as part of a systematic effort to change the educational system but as a minor concession to students who wanted more profound changes. Most of our students still need the phony, commercial kind of motivation that...
KUWAIT NATIONAL PETROLEUM CO. Operates a refinery and markets oil and other refined products internationally through offices in the U.S., Britain, Japan and Singapore; it may also buy a tanker fleet. The two companies that hold a joint concession in Kuwait, Gulf and British Petroleum agreed in 1972 to sell...
The Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee (CTOC) fights for rent control because it represents a concession that the government has given us in response to our organizing efforts. It gives tenants certain tools they can use to build more organizations. The eviction process is made longer and more difficult for landlords...
Assad's socialist Baath regime maintains a no-compromise position toward Israel, which captured chunks of the Golan Heights in 1967 and extended its gains in the October war. But in secret meetings in Damascus last week, hardliners and moderates in the Baath National Command engaged in fierce debates...