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Thus, 73 percent of students believe that the average grade should hover around an A- in the humanities and almost as high in the social sciences. Those marks are deserved. No grader could possibly fake the “Big A,” right...
Daschle’s remarks were plainly intended to bring down Bush’s approval ratings, which still hover around 79 percent. Moreover, the South Dakota senator is slowly positioning himself for a run at the presidency in 2004. But partisan politicking is no excuse for blatantly denying the facts...
...London's Imperial War Museum archives and the memoirs of British Special Branch officers stationed within the fractious International Settlement, Bradby has done for Shanghai what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles?created a stylish and cool genre-fiction tapestry. Bradby also conjures a crime boss, Pockmark Lu, to hover above this seething cauldron. "A man who makes Al Capone look like a social worker," Lu controls an army of 20,000 foot soldiers (based on the real-life Green Gang), hundreds of call girls and boys, imports opium from India and Pakistan and is ruthless in his pursuit...
...footnote on the upcoming congressional races: Can George Bush, whose approval numbers now hover around 80%, keep his party from losing control of the House in November's elections? Democrats, who are within six seats of taking it back, hope not and are encouraged by a focus group one of their pollsters conducted during Bush's State of the Union address last month. Before Bush delivered his stirring speech, 50 swing voters from the Denver area were asked whether they'd vote for a Republican or Democratic congressmen in the next election. They were asked the same question afterwards...
...especially in the humanities. Papers and tests get letters grades, from which a standard deviation cannot easily be computed. Even if one were to use Harvard’s 15-point grading scale to calculate the standard deviation for an exam in an English class, the value would likely hover around one—far too small to make meaningful comparisons. It has become all too common for the goof-off and the hard-working genius to be separated by a single plus or minus on their transcript. When almost half of grades given out at the College...