Word: rigorousness
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...chose to include ourselves in an elite, intellectually challenging academic community. Many of us had opportunities to attend other colleges, but for one reason or another we favored fair Harvard above the rest. In making this decision, we opted to forgo a higher grade point average for intellectual rigor and the opportunity to participate in a cerebral environment. We raised the stakes of our own academic expectations. Or at least we did so in theory, for we certainly have not done so in practice...
...crust, and we should therefore be compared with and evaluated against the performance of our peers. And if the coveted Harvard diploma is to mean what it is meant to mean--namely the combined McKinsey, Mozart and Mercedes of the academic world--then our GPA's should reflect that rigor. Even if the average Harvard students can perform above the average elsewhere, they shouldn't expect--or be able--to do as well at Harvard...
...system's arbitrary obstacles. A requirement in quantitative reasoning could be met by any course in the mathematics or statistics departments; a requirement in foreign cultures could be met by any upper-level language course. No student would feel compelled to take a course of lesser depth, breadth or rigor simply to meet a graduation requirement. Some cross-listings as well as an open, predictable petition process would still be required to account for the courses whose methods of inquiry differ from that generally practiced in their department--a political economy course in the Government department, for example...
...impeachment trial into limbo. Estrada had been hoping the trial would continue without the admission of the incriminating evidence, leading to an eventual acquittal that would restore him enough legitimacy to serve out his term. What he got instead, when the trial collapsed, was the onset of political rigor mortis: the Senate vote became the symbolic catalyst sending hundreds of thousands of Filipinos into the streets to rally at the People Power shrine built along Epifania de los Santos (EDSA) Ave., where praying nuns faced down tanks...
Mozna and Mohammed Imad buried Wael with a bloody gouge between his eyes where the bullet had entered. He still clung to the stone he had been about to throw. The surgeon at Shifa had been unable to free the rock from the rigor mortis in the boy's hand...