Word: harsher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HELMS-BURTON ACT, IMPOSING EVEN harsher trade sanctions on Cuba, is draconian legislation. In proposing it, Senator Jesse Helms self-righteously stated that Canadians should be ashamed of themselves for cooperating with the Castro regime. Let's set the record straight. Canada entered the fight against tyranny in World Wars I and II long before the U.S. did. As for aiding and abetting tyranny, the U.S.--not Canada--has supported such despots as Batista in Cuba, Papa Doc in Haiti, Somoza in Nicaragua and Pinochet in Chile, plus others elsewhere around the globe. The list goes on and on. Enough...
...disturbing for a student newspaper to criticize a policy that benefits students. It seems that opponents of grade inflation would like their classes curved around a B- or a even a C. Their hubris prevents them from realizing that if such harsher grading policies were instituted, they would not necessarily benefit...
...killing one, much less four, unarmed U.S. citizens, but the Clinton administration nonetheless saw fit to replace his regime by an American-backed government. The dictatorship of Fidel Castro has lasted more than 37 years and has repeatedly resorted to violence and oppression in terms similar to, and even harsher than, the deposed Haitian dictator's. Last week's actions are only Castro's most recent transgressions in a long line of human rights abuses that have resulted in over 300,000 deaths...
...Harsher financial controls for groups which have already been in trouble, such as a required yearly audit for An Evening with Champions, make sense. And if the administration would like to require internal audits for all student groups, instead of the somewhat flimsy annual financial reports required now (official bank statements not needed), we would not object. After all, former Perspective president Joshua A. Feltman '95 said last year that such annual reports were "kind of a joke," and other student leaders echoed his assessment...
Crusaders against grade inflation complain that Harvard's system has lost its evaluative power. Too many students earn Bs and As, they say, while too few receive the lower grades needed to legitimize the system. They have proposed solutions ranging from harsher curves within classes to a revamping of the 15-point scale. Yet no one has suggested the most obvious alternative. If grades fail to measure students' abilities and effort, why bother giving them...