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...America ready for…?” without being called racist or sexist. They could critique Rev. Wright more strongly and scrutinize Hillary Clinton’s reaction to her husband’s relationship with Monica Lewinski. The Democrats’ response that these Republican-driven criticisms are steeped in racism and misogyny will fall short, because the Republican Party will have a black person and a woman—all in one—on the ballot. In this way, Rice will be a grand foil for the Republicans...
...moved to such a grading system, which has proved to be more popular law among students and has been praised for deemphasizing competition. With talks beginning as early as last year, Stanford Law School Dean Larry D. Kramer said in a telephone interview Friday that the reforms were driven by growing faculty and student discontent over the existing grading system. “We had created a false sense of precision and drew distinctions among students that weren’t really valid,” he said. “The biggest desire was that we wanted people...
...opposed to academic demands or by being forced to do things,” Kara E. Kaufman ’08—the former president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC)—said. “It’s all very student-driven.” Indeed, many alumni say they received a better theater education at Harvard than they would have with a theater major, according to Robert Scanlan, who chairs the Committee on Dramatic Arts...
...Namath’s guaranteed victory in Superbowl III, occur when players foresee success. Last year, then-sophomore Chris Clayton made a less dramatic but equally accurate prediction of his own that his Harvard men’s tennis team would win the Ivy League this season. The Crimson, driven by solid play across the board, brought home the Ivy League Championship with a perfect 7-0 record and notched a 15-7 record overall. Even in its losses, No. 51 Harvard put up impressive fights against top-flight teams such as then-No. 1 Virginia, then-No. 13 Pepperdine...
...also some of the top employers in their area. Taxation could serve as a disincentive for donations that might push the endowment over $1 billion, and the tax was rightfully disposed of. Schools that have sizeable endowments should make a practice of charitable donations, but those should be University-driven and not mandated by the state...