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Harvard now faces the prospect of coming into next season minus half of its stellar starting rotation. Birtwell, an all-Ivy First Team pick in his senior season, is lost to graduation. Meanwhile, junior Ben Crockett-who attracted throngs of scouts to his starts all year long-may decide to leave school early and pursue a major league career...
...staunch opponent of affirmative action and grade inflation alike, announced that he would issue his students two grades-the grade he thinks they deserve and the "inflated grade" that would appear on their Harvard transcript. Students lauded the conservative campus icon-popularly known as Harvey "C-minus" Mansfield-for his change in policy. But when Mansfield blamed the rise of grade inflation in part on the increase in number of black students at the College in the 1970s, most of the applause stopped...
Schwartz did not receive a single grade lower than an A--not even an A minus--over the course of his four years at Harvard
Meanwhile, Harvard students were left wondering what their grades were worth, given that every fourth grade at the College is a straight A, and that nearly every other grade is an A minus or a B plus. When Lewis released data showing the trends in grade inflation at the College over the past 70 years, it became clear that grade inflation was not a product of affirmative action. While there was a rapid increase in grades between 1960 and 1970, as Lewis pointed out, it occurred before blacks appeared on Harvard’s campus in significant numbers...
...down to the belly button. "It's a very violent operation," says cardiothoracic surgeon Murali Dharan, making a digging motion with his hands. With the da Vinci, Dharan was able to remove Tichtchenko's cancerous esophagus and move her stomach up much higher - to allow her to feed herself minus her swallowing mechanism - through small incisions in her neck. "I'd watched E.R. on TV at home, but I never imagined how fully I'd get to be involved," she says, over lunch three weeks after her operation...