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...daily newspapers, only medieval buildings. Its capital, Thimphu, basked in a stainless quiet in which everyone wore traditional, medieval clothing (as they still do), and fewer tourists arrived in a year than pile into Disneyland in an hour. The young King Jigme Singye Wangchuk was pursuing a policy of "Gross National Happiness" which said that peace was as important as plenty, and immaterial needs were at least as important as material. There is a point of diminishing returns in development, he was suggesting (in terms that more and more people now heed), and he would gladly give up hard currency...
...ironic” grade—the only one that will appear on official transcripts—will follow average grade distribution in the College, with about a quarter of students receiving A’s and another quarter receiving A-minues.Last month, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 sent a letter to Faculty members detailing the distribution of undergraduates’ grades over the past two decades. According to that letter, A’s accounted for 23.7 percent of all grades given to undergrads last academic year—the highest level since...
...percentage of students who submitted a CUE evaluation, 84, remains well below Yale’s, which is in the mid-90s. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 wrote in an e-mail that Yale gets a higher response rate because their evaluations are a part of their culture, as they are becoming at Harvard, and because Yale withholds final examination grades if students do not submit evaluations. Harvard, he said, should not need to do that. “Harvard should be able to beat Yale on school spirit alone...
...another change, Gross wrote that he expects that this will be the last year that the CUE Guide is printed. “The electronic format is more flexible,” he wrote...
...Gross did not respond to the question of whether Fox will remain an assistant dean in repeated e-mails...