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...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 1999-2000, and the second-highest level over the past 20 years.The most common grade at Harvard since 1989-1990 has been an A-minus. Those almost-stellar marks accounted for 25.0% of all grades last year.And the fraction of failures among all undergraduate grades remained...
...moment, very few students use the library, Librarian of the Lamont Library Heather E. Cole said. In hourly counts conducted since October, the average number of people in the Quad Library was only 13.9, while the highest number counted was 54, Cole said...
...docket by Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Daniel S. Fisher and obtained by The Crimson tonight, does not refer to Summers by name, nor does it mention the word “resign.” But its text implicitly calls for an administrative shake-up at the highest levels of the University. Another motion, put on the docket last week by Weary Professor of German and of Comparative Literature Judith Ryan, asks the Faculty to vote on whether or not it “continues to lack confidence in the leadership of President Lawrence H. Summers...
...charges. "This time they crossed the line," says the Florida Chamber's Mark Wilson of aggressive N.R.A. lobbyists. With a similar Oklahoma bill stalled in the courts, Florida G.O.P. lawmakers are torn between two of their best friends. Take the bill's sponsor, for instance. Dennis Baxley, who gets highest ratings from both the Chamber and the N.R.A., says, "It's very awkward...
...butter or nuts and very little meat. As for the question about whether low-fat diets prevent cancer, the WHI study simply may not have gone on long enough. True, there was no statistically significant benefit when you compared the two large groups. But the women who had the highest fat consumption at the start of the trial and who managed to cut it back the closest to 20% for the longest period developed 22% fewer breast cancers than the women in the control group. That's a statistically significant reduction...