Word: informant
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...reserving honors for, at most, the top 60 percent of students, switching to a 4.0 grading scale and making a formal commitment to better regulate and inform professors about their grading habits, they may have muted those critics who questioned the distinction of a Harvard degree...
...meantime, it will be this committee that will study the University’s options and coordinate the necessary legwork. The committee will help to compile the raw data that will inform an ultimate recommendation to Summers and the Corporation...
...necessary expansion. It must endorse and strengthen current interdisciplinary programs while creating new ones as the opportunity arises to solidify bridges between graduate schools and the College. It should plan convenient transportation services to ease the commute for scholars shuttling between schools. It should develop a reliable website to inform all students about important Harvard-wide events—and it must ensure that all schools promote such events and publicize them across the University. These steps will help reinforce the sense that while Harvard’s schools are independent, they are all part of the same university...
...Asia also means Iran?arguably the most productive of the past decade?and the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan. Who knew that these countries, familiar to CNN viewers mainly as restive neighbors of Afghanistan, had thriving (or even furtive) movie centers? That's a prime function of Cannes: to inform the world of the impulse, and ability, to make good films in strange places. Look around, in programs outside the main competition, and find the truth in Lynch's remark on closing night: "Even if the world it reflects is in trouble, the world cinema at Cannes is alive...
...plan to make food production safer with a one-sided policy of fostering organic farming," declared the opposition Christian Democrat Union. Replied Künast, a former Green Party chairwoman in the ruling coalition: "We must find out who knew what and when and failed to pass on the information." Organic farming has surged in the year since the "mad cow" crisis. Bioland, the largest ecological farming association, reported a 15% rise in membership. Still, only about 13,000 of Germany's 450,000 farms are registered as organic. In order to win that label, farmers must show they have...