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Everyone seems to think that the grades have exploded at major universities and that something should be done about it; everyone except students presently enrolled at those universities. The grade inflation "crisis" has been fed by the media's recent obsession, coupled with the rantings of individuals like Keenan Professor of Government Harvard C(-). Mansfield '53. As a result, most people who see grades from top schools, including recruiters and employers, assume that they are artificially high...
...sadly, one can see the old cycle of folly repeating itself. The Federal Reserve seems to believe that if industries start using more than 85% of their theoretical capacity, or the unemployment rate falls much below 6%, inflation will strike. Why? Pro-Fed economists monotonously intone that that is the lesson of history. But suppose the economy has changed so much-because of international competition and changes in the composition of the work force-that the old relationships no longer hold? We have insufficient data to quantify that possibility, reply the defenders of the conventional view. In other words...
...years of deterioration, virtually no training, massive draft resistance," says retired U.S. Army Lieut. General William Odom, a former director of the National Security Agency. "They have physically unhardened soldiers commanded by officers who have had to sell off most of their equipment just to keep the troops fed." A senior Pentagon official who visited Russia recently saw "missile units foraging in the countryside for food like it was the 1890s, not the 1990s...
...gambling hall where Fugui (Ge You) is on a losing streak. His wife Jiazhen (Gong Li) begs him not to return, but before long Fugui loses his home. When his father hears the news, he dies from a heart attack. To make matters worse, Fugui's pregnant wife, fed up with his life style, takes their daughter Fengxia and returns home to her family. Devastated, Fugui is reduced to the life of a beggar...
...director apparently came to the same conclusion last week. Under fire for his handling of the Ames spy scandal and fed up with bureaucratic battles, he telephoned President Clinton on the day after Christmas and announced his leave taking. He then typed out a resignation letter, videotaped a message to CIA employees that was aired after Clinton made the announcement Wednesday, and headed for a vacation in the Caribbean...