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...today’s students are more proficient, they should be receiving higher grades, with or without a more lenient grading policy. More As would then reflect achievement, not inflation. But while many say that students’ abilities have increased, aptitude alone cannot account for the astonishing percentage of Harvard students that receive As and A-minuses today, nor for the full-point jump in average GPA over the last 15 years. “Only a very small part of this is an increase in academic talent of the students,” as Pearson Professor of Modern...
...should be surprised that there isn't more rock-'n'-roll- type behavior." It doesn't help that the game's authorities - the clubs and the Football Association - take contradictory stances when trouble arises. The clubs, perhaps because of the vast commercial considerations in modern football, tend to be lenient...
...Defense lawyers rose to Brinkema's defense when former Sen. Robert Dole, during his 1996 presidential campaign, labeled Brinkema and several other federal judges "soft on crime" at a time when Republicans were attacking individual judges for rulings they felt were too lenient. Dole focused on a case in which Brinkema reduced the sentence of a man she convicted for plotting to kill a former martial arts instructor. She rejected his insanity defense, but cited his diminished mental capacity in sentencing him to 21 months in prison rather than up to 9 years. The appeals court overturned the sentence...
...well as the bomber who exploded outside a Jerusalem hotel on Wednesday, killing himself alone and blowing his head through a window of the establishment's fifth floor--were from the militant Islamic organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad rather than factions loyal to Arafat. But because of his lenient treatment of those groups during the current 14-month-long intifadeh, Arafat is held accountable by Israel for their terrorism. "We regard Mr. Arafat as guilty of everything," Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told TIME late last week...
...week ago, a German tourist in Zambia was convicted of having oral sex, which is considered an “unnatural” and highly illegal act. Although authorities were lenient becase it was a first-time offense, he was sentenced to hard labor and jail for six years...