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...nature of letter grades, we end up drawing lines (between A and A-, A- and B+, B+ and B, et al.) between values that sometimes differ by .02 percent, and the world proceeds to give those lines far too much weight,” Malan wrote in an e-mail to the CS50 teaching staff sent yesterday...

Author: By Monica M. Dodge, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Malan Plans To Cut Letter Grades for CS50 | 4/16/2010 | See Source »

...Obama chooses poorly or his team fails to execute an effective rollout strategy, a botched pick would likely be too tempting a target for conservatives to ignore. If Obama chooses well and his strategists frame the pick in the right way - and no one expects the next Justice to differ vastly in ideology from Stevens - this could end up being one of the most anticlimactic Supreme Court confirmations of the modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the GOP Isn't Spoiling for a Supreme Court Fight | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...question is whether anything other than a massive, one-off revaluation in the RMB versus the dollar - something that is not in the cards - will have any significant impact on employment in the U.S. or Europe. Economists differ around the edges of this debate, but most agree that a big employment impact is unlikely given a RMB rise of, say, 10% over the next year or two. "The thread between the two [revaluation and jobs] is very, very thin," says Derek Scissors, an economist at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. "No currency revaluation of any feasible size will create more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Geithner Made A Surprise Stop in Beijing | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...census may also show significant age-dependent demographic differences within ethnic groups, according to John D. Della Volpe, director of polling at the Institute of Politics, whose research indicates that income and average age differ notably between first and second generation immigrants...

Author: By Nitish Lakhanpal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professors Predict Census Outcomes | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...sitting tamely behind plate-glass windows, passive-aggressive signs warning patrons “please do not touch,” sterile exhibits scattered through maze-like hallways, and a gift shop by the exit to top it all off. Carlin E. Wing ’02 begs to differ with these preconceptions...

Author: By Matthew C. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Museum Houses A Bizarre Bazaar of Animals | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

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