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...degrees awarded. With a dramatic increase in the number of students receiving summa designation last year, there is fear among some in the faculty that the jump is the result of something other than a marked upswing in the intelligence of the Harvard student body. Instead, the grade inflation phenomenon, the creeping of grades towards the high end of the range, has been blamed widely. Even as we acknowledge the negative effects of grade inflation, we hope the Council will not act hastily and that whatever changes it proposes to the Faculty do not have the effect of taking summa...
...executive who declined to participate is Joe Roth, chairman of the Disney studios, which did well with the Travolta film Phenomenon. "Bert made it less about [Scientology] and more about connecting to feelings about the Holocaust," says Roth. "Either that, or they're all whores for Tom Cruise and John Travolta, and they wanted to be on the right list...
Given all that, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that this phenomenon sprang from the imagination of a single man (even Walt Disney needed help from the Brothers Grimm). Lucas' offices, as well as many of his filmmaking facilities, are located on Skywalker Ranch, 3,000 mostly pristine acres in the farther reaches of Marin County, 425 miles north of Hollywood. Given the comparative remoteness and Lucas' image in the press as an elusive personality, not to mention the reverential way in which his colleagues and employees often speak about him (one hears a lot of talk...
...times resorted to violence. In the 1967 wars, Israel resorted to violence to conquer the West Bank and other areas. The PLO and Hamas have also resorted to violence in recent years. Yet, the PLO and Hamas are referred to as terrorists while the Israeli government is not. This phenomenon is not limited to the Middle East--why is the US government not considered an illegitimate terrorist organization who wiped out many Native Americans and conquered land that was not ours? The sad fact is that in war, the winners are called governments and the losers are called terrorists...
...been subjecting us to wine-tasting tests, the College is definitely attempting to develop some sort of taste, an appreciation of high culture in all its students. Take Literature And Arts B, for instance. Out of the 18 courses offered, only three focus on the twentieth century. Now, this phenomenon is hardly the fault of the Core. Instead, society has deemed that certain tastes need to be cultivated in the intelligentsia; Jeopardy-like trivia does not suffice. True taste relies on the appreciation of certain arts and literatures which are not in popular demand, for instance Shakespeare, opera and ballet...