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...wrong,” Summers wrote in a letter he released five days after delivering the now-infamous speech...
...only one that will appear on official transcripts—will follow average grade distribution in the College, with about a quarter of students receiving A’s and another quarter receiving A-minues.Last month, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 sent a letter to Faculty members detailing the distribution of undergraduates’ grades over the past two decades. According to that letter, A’s accounted for 23.7 percent of all grades given to undergrads last academic year—the highest level since 1999-2000, and the second-highest level over...
...G.O.P. over the excesses of lobbyist and admitted felon Abramoff, a Republican, and get a law passed only on their terms. So Obama tried to split the difference. He showed up at a bipartisan meeting on lobbying reform with Republican Senator John McCain but later sent McCain a letter saying he would work on the Democrats' version of a reform bill, as Democratic leaders desired, rather than McCain's. In an angry, sarcastic letter in reply, McCain blasted Obama last week for his "disingenuousness" and "self-interested partisan posturing." "I concluded your professed concern for the institution [of Congress...
...violence elsewhere in Iraq last week. Insurgent attacks-about 70 a day-are significantly higher than they were last year. But there are curious patterns to the violence, which may have something to do with the absence of carnage in Karbala. Last summer al-Zarqawi apparently received a letter-later released by the U.S. government-from the al-Qaeda leadership ordering him to stop bombing Islamic innocents. Recently al-Zarqawi's terrorists seem to have found a new preoccupation: assassinating Sunni leaders who are planning to participate in the new Iraqi government. They killed prominent Sunnis in Kirkuk and Fallujah...
...writing this letter in reference to the Feb. 6 op-ed entitled “Now Playing: Hamas,” which I found both disappointing and misleading in its comparison of Hamas’ electoral victory to that of the Israeli Likud party...