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Ruggiero, who tied for the tournament lead in plus-minus, was named the tournament’s best defenseman following the game. St. Pierre, who made 25 saves, was named the top goaltender...

Author: By David R. De remer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gold, Silver and Crimson | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...loses his reader amid a sea of technicalities and descriptions of virus strains until the drama of 1985. At this point, Gallo claimed to have discovered the virus that causes AIDS, dubbed HLTV-3B. With this virus, Gallo created the first blood antibody test and garnered all the accolades minus the Nobel Prize, including a nomination to the National Academy of Science...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blinded By Science | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...many ways, Huang is a Chinese version of Britain's ballet rebel Michael Clark (minus the dildos and chain saws). But this teen heartthrob (he has a fan club) takes the best of various traditional Chinese genres?martial arts, Beijing opera and acrobatic shows?and blends them together to create a new, action-packed contemporary Chinese dance that is in tune with today's Crouching Tiger-influenced audiences. "I've danced with him a couple times," says the acclaimed American dancer Rasta Thomas, now at the Kirov Ballet. "It's intimidating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enter the Dragon | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

Along the same lines, some have proposed to add an intermediate grade between an A-minus and a B-plus, corresponding to a 13 on Harvard’s grading scale. This, supposedly, would fight the current compression of the grade spectrum and give professors another option to reward excellent work. But this also addresses the symptom, and not the cause, of grade inflation. Harvard has enough grades—12 in all, from A to E with all the pluses and minuses in between—that it would have no trouble distinguishing between students if the system were...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Ill-Advised ‘Solutions’ | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...quality-based measure. It could even misrepresent to outsiders the value of the grades students actually receive. For instance, in a small, advanced class in which almost everyone completes excellent work, an employer might be unimpressed by a grade of A if the median grade were an A-minus...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Ill-Advised ‘Solutions’ | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

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