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...Everyone wants high grades in China--we have very much competition," Bing says. "Every year after the scores and admissions are published, there are many incidents of suicides among high school students. The newspapers have to publish long articles to convince them that failing on the exam is nothing shameful--that there are other things in life." And once the students get to college, "the pressure's so high that some people go out of their minds...
...consider the dangers of over-centralization and the past failures of the assembly. Within a year, students may vote on proposals to give the assembly authority to dispense money to other student groups, to advise the Administrative Board on disciplinary cases, to decide meal plans and security issues, to publish an official newsletter and to speak for undergraduates of University investments, College fees and curriculum requirements...
...amplify Sophie Sparrow's article in todays Crimson (Oct.8th) on the IRS rulings based on Thor vs. IRS: the decision by publishers to destroy overstocks or cut back printings of specialized books (or not to publish these titles at all) in order to avoid excess tax liability will work to the extreme disadvantage of faculty, students, and libraries. It will become increasingly difficult for scholars to find publishers for specialized works and for libraries to find added copies or replacements for scholarly titles required, for example, for reserve reading. In both cases, students at all levels of post-secondary study...
...addition, there would be a social subcommittee to coordinate campus-wide social events, a communications subcommittee to conduct polls and to publish a newsletter, an executive subcommittee to set the agenda for full meetings of the council, and possibly several other subcommittees...
...Pentagon did the exact opposite. It told Benjamin F. Schemmer, owner and editor of the widely respected Armed Forces Journal, that he could now publish a detailed story about Stealth that he had been sitting on for two years at the Government's request. Indeed, William J. Perry, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, briefed Schemmer with additional information...