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Whether grade inflation exists and how it affects students has been debated at least since 1894, when a committee at Harvard declared that A's and B's were awarded "too readily." Princeton in 2004 became the only Ivy League school to adopt a grade-deflation policy, including quotas for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia Parents Fight for Easier Grading Standards | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

Shortly after Sunday's gathering, city manager Harry Walker declared a "state of emergency," which he said would allow the city to ask for assistance from the state and might allow Coatesville to impose some regulations in the name of public safety, such as a curfew, although no specific regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Setting Fire to Coatesville? | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

But Obama doesn't buy that logic. Shortly after taking the oath of office on Tuesday, he turned what had been a campaign promise into an official presidential commitment: the new Administration "will stop the development of new nuclear weapons," the White House declared flatly on its website, with no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Showdown Over Nukes | 1/26/2009 | See Source »

With the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas militants on the verge of collapse, the most dangerous job in Gaza - digging tunnels into Egypt - just got a lot more dangerous. Destroying the tunnels that allowed the import of both vital food and fuel supplies denied Gazans by the Israeli blockade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Truce Teeters, Gaza's Tunnelers Dig Undeterred | 1/25/2009 | See Source »

On Capitol Hill on Thursday, Tim Geithner sent a little thrill up the leg of all the American trade unions that worked so hard to get Barack Obama elected. The Treasury Secretary-designate - whose appointment, despite his embarrassing tax travails, was waved through to the full Senate yesterday by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Geithner's China-Currency Charge | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

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