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...response to dissent from the Staff’s editorial about grade inflation by Jonathan H. Esensten ’04 and Anthony S.A. Freinberg ’04 (“A Dishonorable Solution,” May 13). I feel obliged to point out that admission itself to Harvard, not the awarding of honors, is “meant to distinguish between those students who are merely good and those who consistently have done work of the highest quality,” as the authors claim...
...rise. (Right now, it remains near historic lows at 3.2%.) Worried workers would cut back spending, and property prices could also fall as homebuyers became more cautious. Even those with secure jobs would suddenly feel poorer. "The debt would still be there, but the wealth would be eroded," says Jonathan Loynes of Capital Economics in London. The other risk is too much consumer-driven growth, which might get Bank of England Governor Edward George worried enough about inflation to push rates, and thus mortgage payments, back up - again, tamping down both spending and property markets. One of these two things...
...novel stood out at BEA this year like "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen did last year. But Farrar, Straus, Franzen's publisher, is hoping that it has another winner in "Middlesex" (September), a novel by "Virgin Suicides" author Jeffrey Eugenides. Will lightening strike twice...
...Conroy, author of "The Great Santini," "Prince of Tides," "The Lords of Discipline," and the like, quipped to a BEA crowd that while last year's big book was "The Corrections," this year's will be "The Erections," featuring "the simple love story between Jonathan Franzen and Oprah Winfrey...
Crockett was an unanimous choice for first-team All-Ivy honors and was chosen as co-Pitcher of the Year, an award he shares with Brown’s Jonathan Stern...