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Obviously, A’s are abundant. A Princeton study found that 44 to 55 percent of grades at 11 elite colleges were in the A-range. And, even though nobody has proven that this is particularly detrimental to undergraduate education, the centerpiece of the Princeton’s plan is a cap the number of A-pluses, A’s and A-minuses awarded to undergraduates. If it passes an April 25 faculty vote, the cap would hold A-range grades to less than 35 percent of all grades given. If this sounds familiar, that?...
...find it strange and unsettling that he believes that his independent thought is better stimulated by staring passively at a television screen than by spending an hour with his classmates discussing his own insights into his reading. My, my—I realize now that Freinberg has actually proven the very point he intended to argue against: clearly David Brooks is correct in underestimating Harvard students’ intellects, if students themselves believe that their television sets are a better resource than their Harvard peers...
...around London, 700 police officers swooped down on 24 addresses, detaining eight terrorist suspects--mostly British-born Pakistanis--and recovering 1,000 lbs. of a bombmaking chemical in a storage facility. A British official said the arrested have no proven ties to al-Qaeda but then suggested the suspects probably have "overseas links." And Italian cops conducted a "preventive" sweep, taking 90 Islamic extremist suspects into custody...
...there a chance that some of those movies will be good? Sure, but action-y blockbusters as a group are so creatively and intellectually bankrupt that I don’t see any need to cut them any slack; we should consider them bad until proven good. And even at their best, such movies can’t match the worth of good dramas or intelligent, socially relevant comedies; I love Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back as much as the next movie man, but as creative as they are, they’re not much...
...scandal didn't land within fungo distance of him, but Rodriguez, a company guy all the way, claims competing against cheaters doesn't bother him--only partly because he has led the American League in homers the past three years anyway. "I'm a strong believer in innocent until proven guilty," he says. "I've never assumed any other players were on steroids. I've never felt cheated...