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...Princeton—and Harvard—would instead focus on combating the inflation of grades as a signal of raw accomplishment and committed itself to a much bolder change. The notion that a C denotes “average” performance in a course seems positively quaint today, but why not revive it? This is not to say that courses should be graded on a strict curve with a C as the mean; that would reinstate grades exclusively as a relative communicator of performance and have similar effects as the Princeton grading cap. Instead, why not rescale...
There is a tendency in the greater public to look at rural America with nostalgia, imagining these places as pictures on postcards—quaint, beautiful, pristine paradises. Beyond the gilded picture of the idealized small town lie issues of pressing importance that must be addressed...
...sandy bunkers of St. Andrews aren't the only tourist traps in the golf capital of Scotland. Just 14 km down the road, 30 m beneath a quaint stone farmhouse, is Scotland's Secret Bunker: the nuclear-proof headquarters for Scottish ministers, had the cold war got hot. Descend a gray metal staircase and down a 150-m, tungsten-reinforced tunnel to reach the bunker's red blastproof doors. From 1968 to 1992 these subterranean redoubts were manned by soldiers from the Royal Observer Corps; on guard today are uniformed mannequins, their lifelessness adding an apocalyptic chill...
...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder The sandy bunkers of St. Andrews aren't the only tourist traps in the golf capital of Scotland. Just 14 km down the road, 30 m beneath a quaint stone farmhouse, is Scotland's Secret Bunker: the nuclear-proof headquarters for Scottish ministers, had the cold war got hot. Descend a gray metal staircase and down a 150-m, tungsten-reinforced tunnel to reach the bunker's red blastproof doors. From 1968 to 1992 these subterranean redoubts were manned...
...forte. In September 2003 he told the country that he was asking Congress for $87 billion to fund the war in Iraq that his aides had said could be paid for with Iraqi oil revenue. It bombed. There was a firestorm over the cost-an idea that seems quaint given the hundreds of billions that Iraq and Katrina will end up on the taxpayer's dime. A year later, he choppered from the White House to the Army War College in Pennsylvania to sell a war in Iraq that was losing support at home. And he did the same...