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...easy to see why: Asking America to spend tens of billions of dollars on a system that has thus far shown precious little technical ability to do its job certainly requires a substantial leap of faith - not least because the threat it's designed to counter appears to rank pretty low on the scale of clear and present dangers to U.S. security...
Unfortunately, the intentions of the film are often undermined by clunky dialogue that comes off sounding no better than the rank clichés that they are. At times it tries a little too hard to be inspirational, other times the dialogue is so absolutely meaningless that one can’t help but wonder why the director included it. To fill time? To create characterization? In a movie about movement, it is the actions that speak louder than words, and the dialogue often comes second to the acting as a means of establishing personalities. In addition, the script offers...
...Second, prior to 1973, the data are for men only; from 1973 on, they are for both men and women. Because the presidents’ reports for a few years starting in 1973 list the percentages in the various Rank List Groups separately for men and women, I computed weighted averages based on enrollment numbers to determine the overall Rank List Group percentages...
...Rank List data are tempting, and should not be overinterpreted. Most of the bumps in the chart are probably just noise. Still, I will risk making a few observations...
...First, the data seem not to suggest that C was ever an average grade at Harvard. Estimating the average Harvard grade from the percentage of the class in the various Rank List Groups, at the Harvard Mansfield attended in the early 1950s, the average grade was probably above B-. For C to have been the average grade during his undergraduate years, Mansfield’s Harvard would have to have been not just a Garden of Eden, but a Lake Wobegon, where almost everyone was above average...