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...bruises all along her arms and legs. "I've got another one!" Reichert shouted to the other cops by the river. When the medical examiner arrived, he estimated that Chapman had been in the river about a week, Hinds several days. The body of Mills barely had traces of rigor mortis, suggesting she had been dead only a day or so; rigor mortis generally starts to wear off after 24 hours...
...paycheck? Should Harvard students graduate with mediocre GPAs when they could easily earn near perfect marks at any school in the nation? And does the need to produce students with lower grades actually have more to do with faculty and administrative fear that other schools are approaching our academic rigor than it does with measuring real student achievement...
Joel D. Mitchell ’04 agrees that NELC stands out among other departments for the number of languages and rigor of study in the concentration. “Arabic is a very intensive program,” he says. “It is challenging but rewarding. And the faculty are very helpful—they really go out of their way for you.” While many of the smaller concentrations receive similar praise from students, NELC seems to stand out among all the departments. Perhaps Vendenyapin sums up NELC’s superiority best...
...honors: 5 percent for percentage of concentrators who graduate with any Latin honors, 5 percent for percentage of those who graduate magna and summa and 5 percent for percentage of those who graduate summa. Our assumption is that a higher percentage of honors indicates greater academic achievement and rigor in the concentration...
...existence of psychokinesis, the ability to move physical objects solely through psychic power—think X-Men’s Jean Grey—and telepathy, the ability to read minds—think Miss Cleo or Professor X—are being tested with intense scientific rigor. Through the work of PEAR, notions of “mind over matter” and psychic communication that were once solely the stuff of science fiction and 1-900 numbers increasingly appear to be grounded in reality...