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...prompted by the heightened greenhouse effect underway, persists into the new year. The polar ice caps begin to melt, flooding Canada and parts of downtown Cambridge. Harvard Facilities Maintenance men work 'round the clock to keep paths to the libraries and Mem Hall passable. Reading Period, cancerlike, festers into exam period. Students refuse to take exams for the first three days until their biological clocks have completed the full two-week cycle...
...about a 1979 TIME story, reported by Halevy, concerning Begin's poor health. When Halevy's confidential sources would not confirm the details of his report, TIME subsequently published a denial from a Begin aide. The magazine noted that it "was apparently misled" about a Begin medical exam and "regrets the error." Duncan stressed that if he had thought Halevy himself had misled TIME, he would have fired him. Duncan did put Halevy on one-year probation, but in court he also praised Halevy for his "good, expert and reliable" reporting on numerous major stories...
...Kwisatz Haderach!" So inward and remote does the movie seem, it might have arrived in a time capsule from one of the four warring planets. Most sci-fi movies offer escape, a holiday from homework, but Dune is as difficult as a final exam. You have to cram...
...student's work, but each grade would be subjected to rigorous verification and justification. The committee would consider the difficulty of paper topics a student undertakes, the availability of books in area libraries related to that topic, and the complexity of the student's sentence structure on the final exam. It would need to determine the difficulty of the couse in comparison with other courses so that students taking "guts" would not receive unduly high grades. Maybe it should take into account the professor's ability to enunciate clearly lest a student miss a key phrase in lecture. Such...
Though he scored 39 percent on the written exam and slightly better in the lab, he had "more confidence on the theoretical part because I burned myself...