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--Add Halloween: It's not deserving of full holiday status, though a half day seems appropriate. All Hallow's Eve is not just for kids anymore, and getting out of work a few hours early would allow for more elaborate costumes and decorations. On a more serious note, parents would...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: Taking The Day Off | 2/15/1997 | See Source »

Supinda's roommates also said that she is particularly deserving of the award.

Author: By Kelly M. Yamanouchi, | Title: Bunyavanich Named to USA Today College Team | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

Just when you thought there was a chance of graduating Harvard with highest honors, the Faculty Council is now talking about clamping down on the number of summa cum laude degrees awarded. With a dramatic increase in the number of students receiving summa designation last year, there is fear among...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confer Honors Consistently | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

This is precisely why tinkering with percentage points in the summa standards is ill-advised: students in the running for highest honors have extremely close cumulative averages as it is. With the value of grades as a measuring stick diminished by inflation, notching up standards cannot be seen as a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confer Honors Consistently | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

If so, I had to face up to what I might have wrought. It was possible that some completely innocent sales rep, flying from New York to Chicago as part of an unsung but fundamentally noble effort to support his deserving family, was suffering agonizing hunger pangs because I had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COFFEE, TEA--WAS IT ME? | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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