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...would not favor a requirement of this sort but rather the inclusion of another line on the transcript indicating into which quintile or quartile the student’s grade fell relative to all the grades given in the course,” he wrote in an e-mail. “That would instantly put the meaning of (say) a Harvard A- in context...
...issue is not one of invention or hyperbole, of motive or execution, but rather one of focus. The country of memory Lelyveld establishes in “Omaha Blues” feels like a homestead awarded him by chance, a claim better left unworked in favor of more fruitful ventures. His experience reporting overseas would seem to be rich territory upon which to build a memoir, but those are not the years and the events he chooses to survey in this text...
...superb reviews from many who had once ignored Barnes’ work, mostly by hinting at new directions less directly beholden to Dad’s record collection. Initial reports suggesting that “Twins” would chuck the dusty influences out the window altogether in favor of funky synths and danceable rhythms were promising—but they also raised disquieting visions of an aging Elephant jumping on a new, shakier backward-looking bandwagon...
...Yale, 82 percent of graduate teaching assistants and 91 percent of non-teaching graduate students in the university’s Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO)—which has been trying to unionize for years—voted in favor of strike action, according to GESO Chair Mary Reynolds...
Goldner said that over 80 percent of GSEU members who cast ballots voted in favor of strike action at Columbia. Goldner would not reveal how many of GSEU’s more than 1,000 members voted Wednesday...