Word: failed
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...faulted: the CEP added some solid college courses to the NROTC requirement as well as sifting some of the chaff from the curriculum. But a reform like this carries the danger that the Faculty will feel spared of reconsidering the larger questions around ROTC. Just as fourth course pass-fail for the moment pushed any wide debate on Harvard's grading system aside, the NROTC revisions threaten to bury the issue of whether ROTC has any place in the Harvard curriculum...
...Faculty follows the advice of its Committee on Educational Policy (and it almost always does) Independent Study will be run on a more liberal set of rules next fall. Independent Study will join pass-fail as an option open to any sophomore, junior or senior who wants to break away from the conventional lineup of graded lecture courses. Projects will not be automatically approved under the new system and the number of students who can take Independent Studies will be limited by the amount of time Faculty members find to supervise these one-man courses...
...Attorney General will let the SACB die. He must either revive the SACB by June 30, or explain to Congress why he has not done so. Countryman said he expects "severe pressure" on the Attorney General from the supporters of the SACB, but expressed hope that the pressure will fail...
This technique of direction, however, requires incredibly strong acting to keep the styles and their effects distinct. The principal problems of the Agassiz Cherry Orchard are the disturbing inconsistencies of characterization as actors fail to exploit the peculiar logic of their styles in moments of crisis and dip into the grab bag of general histrionics to carry them through. After Ken Tigar recovered from some painful timing slips in the first act he gave a striking portrayal of a serf turned manager. His nagging, casually enunciated, and loud voice move against the general strength of Marilyn Pitzele's Ranevskaya...
...Yoksimovich, a white Dutch immigrant who teaches French and German, is worried by the number of students she has to fail at Shaw. She is a warm and good-natured woman, a mother out of a Norman Rockwell print. She and her husband, a Russian instructor at Shaw, live in a pleasant Raleigh suburb. "Raleigh is a very nice place to live," she told us as she drove us to her home. "Of course there are some bad sections, but I think it's very nice...