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...addition, Lewis proposed abolishing the Rank List Groups, which divides students into six categories based on their grades, and significantly cutting the number of John Harvard Scholarships and Harvard College Scholarships awarded...
Lewis also said the elimination of the Rank List Groups makes sense in light of last year’s changes, which changed the grading scale from a 15-point scale to a 4.0 scale starting next fall, since they have “de facto disappeared...
...personal view is that the Rank List system is obsolete. It no longer has much purpose,” Jasanoff said...
...John Harvard Scholarship and the Harvard College Scholarship were created by the Faculty in 1896 and 1898, respectively. The Rank List Groups were created...
...Laden staged an apparent suicide ambush on U.S. Marines on the Kuwaiti island of Failaka. After killing one service member, the Kuwaitis were shot to death by U.S. forces. The attackers had reportedly trained in terror camps in Afghanistan. Arab officials say that al-Qaeda leaders, in communications with rank and file, are using the potential campaign against Iraq to rally for a new round of violence. With the Pentagon planning to move as many as 250,000 troops into the region in advance of a possible invasion, some experts believe that al-Qaeda will call for a renewed jihad...