Word: conforming
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Africa has long been renowned for its musical heritage, but it's only comparatively recently that the continent has been exporting it abroad. Youssou N'Dour and the Senegal born hip-hop artist Akon may have broken into the pop mainstream, but both had to conform to Western tastes and styles of music in order to do so. Nuru Kane, the continent's latest musical wunderkind, hopes to change that...
...twice as many years removed from Grease, which opened on Broadway in 1972, as the original show was from the doo-wop era it poked fun at), the show has the purity of an archetype, and even a few serious points to make about the adolescent pressure to conform, the glamour of the outcast, and the conflict between authenticity and "cool." Even the old Jim Jacobs-Warren Casey songs have more wit and resonance than I recall - like the simple girl-boy counterpoint in "Summer Love...
...While Harvard College conducts its own exit survey of seniors each year, it does not release the results publicly. But professors who have seen the College’s data say The Crimson’s results closely conform to official statistics...
...equality for all, why are its young deprived of the right to expression in school? Ironically, it is in this very environment that we learn about our freedoms, a setting that teaches us to articulate our thoughts in English class but then stifles our voices if they do not conform to some norm...
...Faculty thinks that grade inflation is a problem, it should be low on its priority list.Finally, on a very basic level, grades should be a representation of the quality of a student’s work. Imposing an artificial standard trivializes grades by forcing a distribution to conform to preconceived notions. Although having a large percentage of high grades may decrease the relative value of such grades in the eyes of graduate schools or potential employers, it would be more misleading to have grades that were unjustifiably and arbitrarily lowered.Like democracy, Harvard’s may be the worst grading...