Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this could be no more than a feel-good gesture at the end of a feel-bad session. The G.O.P. has thrown its right-wing base enough Grade A red meat to satisfy the most ravenous appetite. The right wing's "war against the homosexual agenda" is actually against homosexuals themselves. In fighting to limit AIDS funding and battling gay adoption and marriage, some Republicans have characterized gays as less deserving of basic rights and as a sinful, diseased threat to the American way of life. There was, of course, Senator Trent Lott's comparison of homosexuality to kleptomania...
...home schooling becomes mainstream, other institutions are finding it hard to adjust. For example, the National Collegiate Athletic Association judges scholarship eligibility by grade-point average and has run into problems evaluating grades awarded by parents. The military deems home-school degrees inferior to those from accredited high schools, which has opened it to charges of discrimination...
Such 12th-grade science is all very well, but Glenn and his fellow humans will be forgiven a few twinges of disgust and fear at the presence of the roach-o-nauts. It's less than two years since the embattled space station Mir was plagued by the presence of a single floating cockroach -- which, not surprisingly, came aboard by accident. NASA moved to calm fears Monday: "They won't be infesting space," laughed payload coordinator Rud Moe. It is, after all, worth $5,000 to the agency if the bugs check in and check out. All the same, perhaps...
...pointless to mention that the 163-page collection of totally fabricated celebrity dirt is perhaps a little too darkly funny for some of us. (Don't worry; it will be mentioned anyway.) Stewart's bizarre sense of humor--an almost schizophrenic mating of pseudo-highbrow Lampoon humor with seventh grade locker room jokes--brought him notoriety, though not much air time, on the short-lived "Jon Stewart Show" on MTV. In book form, however, his alternatingly grotesque and hysterical comedic style finds a happy home. These are not jokes that would work in a standup routine; but on paper...
...admissions office gives far less weight to grade point averages because, Fadule says, a 3.0 at West Point is much more impressive than a "B" at Harvard. HBS officials instead direct their attention to the rigor of courses taken...