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...Eden Riegel ’02 of “All My Children” played D.J., Tatyana M. Ali ’02-’03 was featured as Stephanie Tanner, and “The Wonder Years’” Crystal McKellar, a student at the Law School, played Kimmy Gibler...
...next season. And the network's two real creative successes last season, "Gilmore Girls" and "Grosse Pointe," both had a more adult focus. (It also had a hit with "Popstars," the cynically synergistic reality show about the making of girl-band and AOL Time Warner recording artists Eden's Crush; but that franchise could prove a one-hit wonder when musical fads change...
...grade inflation. The publicity has been spurred in large measure by his theory of why grades have gone up. According to a view stated by Mansfield—most recently in an April 6 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education—there was once a Garden of Eden at Harvard in which professors gave students the grades they deserved. “Everyone knows that C is an average grade,” he says. At some point we stopped evaluating students properly. “When grade inflation got started, in the late...
...various Rank List Groups, at the Harvard Mansfield attended in the early 1950s, the average grade was probably above B-. For C to have been the average grade during his undergraduate years, Mansfield’s Harvard would have to have been not just a Garden of Eden, but a Lake Wobegon, where almost everyone was above average...
These bands, as befits the older-skewing VH1, aren't teen pop (several have a circa 1995 alterna-rock sound). But that may not be a bad thing. Despite the success of O-Town and Eden's Crush, that slickly packaged style of music has lately dipped on the charts. Stone and Stanley predict Popstars will be on the air in 10 years, creating bands of different genres to suit each season. But it's hard to imagine, say, a Grungestars, should there be a resurgence in music reliant on at least the appearance of independence...