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...This final bill will have three major objectives: providing near-universal coverage, improving the quality of health-insurance policies, and controlling the cost of health care (often wonkishly referred to as “bending the cost curve??). Although the legislation is likely to accomplish the first two goals, stemming health-care inflation will prove more elusive...
...minority issues.” In 1988, Yiddish literature professor Ruth R. Wisse described the Palestinians as “people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.” In 1994, the late psychology professor Richard J. Herrnstein argued in “The Bell Curve?? that African-Americans and Hispanics are inherently less intelligent than whites. In 2001, government professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 speculated that the presence of black students was the cause of grade inflation at Harvard, and in 2002 law professor Alan M. Dershowitz conditionally endorsed torture...
...didn’t shut himself off from other students—he often played “Halo” tournaments with cross-country teammates—he admits slyly that his schoolwork suffered. “I kind of have a ‘bell-shaped curve?? expectation of my performance over four years,” he says, taking care to not play as much this year. Still, he enjoys playing “Halo 2” with other friends in Lowell House. In November, Lowell opened a gaming room for students like Green...
Perhaps worse than the bell curve??s rigid predestination is that the curve stifles students’ interest in the material and actually ensures a sub par effort from many undergraduates. A friend of mine recently provided me with an example. She was assigned her first paper for a class, and was determined to do well on it. She spent a week outlining, drafting, rewriting—making sure she had covered every point and counterpoint, every nuance in her paper. The result of this incredible effort was a B+. When the next paper was assigned, she decided...
Several students talked about pressure to choose concentrations to get good grades—what one student called an effort to “beat the curve??—tying the stress of the high-stakes atmosphere at Harvard to problems with mental health on campus...