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Still, the U.S. may at last be seeing signs of progress. Compared with the streets last fall, residents tell me, a relative calm has returned to Mansour. Fewer bodies are being found every day, and it is no longer routine to see gunmen shouldering rocket launchers in the street. One reason the violence has subsided, of course, is that many of the neighborhoods that saw the bloodiest sectarian cleansing are no longer mixed...
...Barrie says of the copyright suit. "These aren't nuclear-missile secrets." Papers are being archived at the same time as testing sites install cell-phone detectors to keep students from text-messaging answers or finding them online. One result of the high-tech cheating wars: paranoia. McCabe says fewer students are filling out his anonymous surveys. "Students started accusing me of getting their IP address," he says...
...Crimson’s estimates show that there are currently fewer than 10 black baseball players in the Ivy League, and that some teams have none on the roster. In fact, Harvard welcomed its first African-American player in seven years this season in designated hitter Andrew M. Prince ’10. The last was Peter N. Woodfork ’99, who now serves as the current assistant general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Though Harvard has had several Latin-American players in the past, Hispanics at the collegiate level account for even less of the national...
...unjustifiably and arbitrarily lowered.Like democracy, Harvard’s may be the worst grading system—except for all the others. If grade inflation was a clear problem and there were fair and compelling ways to reduce grades without harming the undergraduate experience, we would hardly mind having fewer A’s on our transcripts. Until someone finds such a silver bullet, however, we’ll take the status...
...mobile crisis unit operating on a site adjacent to the hospital by June, and is in negotiations with a closed mental health center uptown, where the hospital hopes to lease enough space to open 33 psychiatric beds. But staffing is still a huge challenge, Fontenot says. There are fewer resources available to follow patients once they leave the emergency room, fewer people to track them and ensure that they receive proper medication. And the aftershocks of Katrina are still reverberating...