Word: rule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invective of prominent nationalist leader, Bal Thackeray, against Sonia Gandhi reveals BJP unease at her appeal. "I will not allow any white-skin to rule this country," Thackeray was reported as saying in a Reuters release. "This Italian woman can never become our prime minister. Have we lost our masculinity? Did we throw out the British to invite this foreigner...
...seizures a while back. But now her majesty is the very model of a modern European monarch -- she pays taxes, invites tourists into her home and dishes out knighthoods to rock stars. Her great-grandfather Edward VII, who would have lost the throne to his sister under the new rule, must be doing cartwheels in his grave...
...rule that I couldn't watch television unless I knew what show was on and what time it was on. I couldn't just turn on the TV. So I only ended up watching about three shows a week," said Velma M. McEwan '00. To make up for it, McEwan used to reenact "MacGyver" episodes. Vanessa P. Bertozzi '00 remembers her deprived childhood as a time of necessary duplicity. "My older sister, older brother and I had to sneak TV when our parents went out. We'd listen for the car coming up the driveway and then...
Okay, so grades are up. The curve is rising and the scale of evaluation is a bit more crowded. At Harvard, as elsewhere, in many classes the A is now more of the rule than the exception...
...second option--already in effect, according to what some professors say and others do--is consciously to give out lower grades. The rumored "one A per section" rule in some Core classes is a case in point. But this plan is not wise. It drives away serious students unwilling to sacrifice their pride and, possibly, their degree of future success to appease what appears to be a professor's mean streak...