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...eavesdropping on Cantabrigians’ conversations) that in this city “almost everyone seems to know everything about everything—or at least they think they do.” Rodriguez, who has lived in Cambridge for 27 years, is of the opinion that Muro was correct in dubbing 02138 the most opinionated zip in Massachusetts (though the shirt expands the claim to “the world?...
...latter is deemed correct, the consequences of giving Harvard students lower grades would be large, because when grades are based on curves, the emphasis shifts from one of academic excellence to one of academic competition, changing the meaning of grades from achievement to “winning.” I know this from personal experience...
...Record" item on radioactive nuclear waste that will be buried in Yucca Mountain, Nev. [NOTEBOOK, Jan. 21], referred to the Energy Secretary as Abraham Spencer. The correct name is Spencer Abraham. In the same item, we said the buried waste will remain radioactive for 10,000 years. Instead, the figure 10,000 is the number of years of storage the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Environmental Protection Agency require to meet radiation-protection standards...
...begins by asking questions. If something is in place merely because it is politically correct, [Summers] will get to the bottom of it,” a friend says...
While Summers was making headlines for his calls for greater patriotism in academia and his spat with Fletcher University Professor Cornel West ’71, conservative editorial pages and columnists praised signs that he was the leader who could provide a needed lesson to out- of-touch, politically correct and knee-jerkingly liberal Harvard...