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...Flare Up and Fizzle...
...most recent flare-up began with the comment by professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. in The Crimson that grade inflation was in part due to the rising number of Black students at Harvard. According to Mansfield, professors were hesitant to fairly grade those Blacks who deserved low grades, thus raising the average. He did not substantiate his claims with facts or figures, but based his observation on personal experience...
Troyka, which has served standard Russian fare for the past three years and ten months, decorates its walls with an old world flare, Tetradze says...
...fungus has permanently damaged lung or bone tissue, surgical repair may be needed. Since the drugs serve only to suppress the fungus, not to kill it, those who develop a severe case of valley fever may require treatment for years and can never be sure that it will not flare up again...
...platters that seem to float above the crowd, held high by waiters who bustle unseen through the surrounding crush of people. It would be impossible, at this point, to fall, much less move anyplace, because a dense knot of bodies presses in from every direction. More TV camera lights flare up--Entertainment Tonight and CBS--and the room becomes one crowded, sweaty, hyperthermic, and increasingly drunk exercise in swirling claustrophobia...