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...their courses, starting this semester. Third-year students will finish their last year under the old system, which has nine categories spanning A+ to F. Second-year students, whose fate in the transition was most uncertain, will graduate with a transcript with grades under both systems. They will receive letter grades through this year, and then switch to the pass/fail system as third-year students. Latin honors will be determined by a student’s performance during all three years. In an e-mail sent to the student body, Kagan wrote that delaying the transition until next year...
...billion more. Question 1 supporters tell the undecided that the measure’s opponents are “indirectly funded by your tax dollars.” They’re right. Everyone in Massachusetts is indirectly funded by tax dollars—when they mail a letter, borrow books from the library, or visit a nearby state park...
Assistant College Dean Paul J. McLoughlin II said that although the complaints of HRL were “a part of the impetus” for sending out the letter to the College, the administration’s push for free speech on campus should not be interpreted as support for one particular group’s publicity campaign...
...money is to politicians what kryptonite is to Superman, but Mandelson was given the antidote to his latest exposure by Rothschild. In a startling intervention, Rothschild sent a letter to the Times of London newspaper that instantly moved attention away from Mandelson's links with Deripaska and onto the hapless Osborne. According to Rothschild, Osborne and Andrew Feldman, the chief executive of the Tory party, had met with Deripaska and had discussed with him a possible donation to Conservative coffers...
...Osborne and his colleagues are left scratching, but fleas have a habit of jumping and in recent days some reporters have turned their attention to the ties that bind Rothschild and Deripaska and to the impact of the credit crunch on their business interests. Rothschild explained in his Times letter that he was moved to intervene because of Osborne's original indiscretion in telling a journalist about his private conversation with Mandelson. "It ill behoves all political parties to try and make capital at the expense of another in such circumstances. Perhaps in future it would be better...