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...Inequality in grading practices strikes me as a more serious problem than grade inflation per se,” Buell said. “Surely problems of fairness ought to loom larger than problems having to do with possible excess of generosity...
...market teams thus have an advantage over their small-market cousins, which has proved out in playoff appearances. Of course, money can't explain everything. If the big-city teams ought to dominate, how do you account for Chicago's Cubs and White Sox? Or the Boston Red Sox's karmic futility...
...Shaolin temple in America? Outrageous, perhaps, but if anyone can judge the group's authenticity, it ought to be Yan Ming himself. He's a legitimate scion of the original Shaolin Temple, the 1,500-year-old monastery a few kilometers away whose monks' melding of the gentle tenets of Buddhism with ancient combat techniques has earned it renown as the symbolic birthplace of Chinese martial arts. Just ask the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service: it thought Yan Ming should register his hands as lethal weapons when he applied for a green card. Just ask the Henan Tourist Bureau...
Self-critique is clearly not Rabbo’s favorite pastime. In fact, after over a year of Palestinian terror, murder, lynching and rampant violence, Rabbo’s best example of a recent Palestinian mistake was that they ought to have pushed harder for Israel to freeze settlement activity. The Palestinian choice to resort to violence did not come to mind...
...realizes the truth: for Neil Rudenstine’s speeches, as for Gertrude Stein’s Oakland, there is no there there. Our former president speaks in platitudes; he borrows other men’s insights to fill the spaces in his speeches where insight and originality ought to find a home. “All of us recognize that we are now actors in a drama that has become global in nature,” he tells one audience; another is informed that the “enlarged range of different human and intellectual contacts and perspectives increases...