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Following a yearlong controversy about grade inflation, professors unanimously adopt a new 4.0 grading scale and restrict the proportion of honors awarded each year to 60 percent. The Class of 2005 will be the first to feel the effects of these changes.

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Look Back | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

Perhaps such harsh treatment of others is a by-product of the harsh treatment to which many of us subject ourselves. Maybe a part of the meanness comes from the nature of academia, which advances by finding faults with the present body of knowledge. Or it could even be a...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, | Title: Leaving Cynicism Behind | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

Due to rapidly growing population and high fertility in poor nations, one might naturally infer that numbers of people living in hunger and poverty would be on the rise. But even in spite of population increases, the total number of malnourished people has dropped by 200 million in the last...

Author: By Richard T. Halvorson, | Title: Valuing the Person | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

Of course, neither men nor women can do anything about their age or the genes they were born with. (If your father had a heart attack before 55 or your mother had a heart attack before 65, you should pay special attention to your heart health.) And it's still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The No. 1 Killer Of Women | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

You've probably never heard of Adoor Gopalakrishnan, and for a long time that was fine with him. He's an art-film director in Bollywood-besotted India, and he makes movies not in Hindi but in Malayalam, the language of his native Kerala - two strikes against widespread recognition. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knee Deep in the New Wave | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

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