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...colleges in the country, you will find the top students. Many of them not only possess incredible abilities, but a desire to put out the finest work they can. This will tend to produce a number of high grades, usually well-earned. A little media scrutiny and crank opposition from faculty and administrators should not force universities into changes that are harmful to these top-tier students. Princeton and other schools struggling with grade inflation should see that students get what they actually deserve, not the grades the grade deflators think they...
...Prince, who saw a growing need for private security work by governments overseas and private firms. Since then, the company has trained more than 50,000 military and law-enforcement personnel just south of the Virginia border, near Norfolk, at its 6,000-acre facility, which it calls "the finest private firearms-training facility in the U.S." The facility boasts several target ranges and a simulated town for urban-warfare training. It is so advanced that some of the U.S. military's active-duty special-ops troops have trained there. Next month Blackwater will host the World SWAT Challenge...
...corporate mating season begins in October. Nervous seniors perfect their resumes and sport their finest suits, hoping to attract job offers from sought-after firms: Goldman Sachs, Bain, McKinsey and the like. A select few applicants will secure a working relationship, but the majority will receive an e-mail beginning with the season’s most dreaded phrase: “We regret to inform you...” What factors land someone a position? According to Colleen M. Horan ’05, it takes brains, talent and a lot of “bullshitting...
...Johnson by covering 14 tracks by Robert Johnson, the most miserable Mississippian ever to strum a guitar. When he died, Johnson was 27 and had only 29 songs to his name. Clapton says those recordings (which are just Johnson and his Gibson L-1, no accompaniment) are the finest music ever made, which leads to a conceptual dilemma: if Clapton mimics Johnson's superior minimalism, he has added nothing; if he tinkers, he risks ruining perfection. He's damned both ways...
...founded the modern Olympics in 1896, had been taken literally when he asserted that "The Anglo-Saxon race is the only one that fully appreciates the moral influence of physical culture," we all might have been spared synchronized swimming. Instead we might be cheering as the world's finest athletes hurl themselves downhill in pursuit of a piece of cheese or watching slo-mo replays of bloodied shin kickers or muddied bog snorkelers going for the gold. For, as J.R. Daeschner relates in his obsessive, down-and-dirty travelogue, True Brits (Arrow Books; 340 pages), they're the kind...