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Roughly half of the grades distributed to undergraduates in recent years have been in the A-range, up from about one-third 15 years ago, according to the report, compiled by the Education Policy Committee (EPC) of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Sachs knocking on your door, it’s hard to believe there’s anything else out there when all you see is plenty.” He speculates that widespread resistance to the sit-in tactic, as demonstrated by a Crimson poll which found that only one-third of students agreed with this strategy, is due partly to “an unfamiliarity with how direct social action can change society...
...what about accuracy? In the transparent, real-time information environment of new wars, trust is a commodity to be won, not assumed as of right. Officials want cockpit videos of bomb strikes to confirm immediate achievements. But post-conflict analysis typically shows that barely one-third of videoed explosions caused the purported damage. In Kosovo, Britain?s Chief of Defence Staff reported "significant" damage to Yugoslav tanks from nato bombing. After the fighting, most destroyed "tanks" were found to be crude wooden fakes. NATO officials later conceded that many war claims had been knowingly exaggerated to impress public opinion...
...their leaders? ability to protect citizens from further terrorist attacks. Forty-seven percent of respondents are "somewhat" confident the U.S. government knows how to prevent additional people from anthrax infection. Although 33 percent say George W. Bush has done a "very good" job responding to the anthrax attacks, one-third say they are either "not very" or "not at all" confident, while 25 percent have a "great deal" of confidence in the government?s protective abilities. In a mid-September poll, that last number was 41 percent...
...wrote about one-third of the code and took the rest from publically available open-source software. Dougherty used money from his summer job to pay for the project’s server, housed in Maxwell Dworkin...