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...myself,” he said.Mansfield said his own undergraduate grades were “okay,” and when he was at the College, grades averaged between a B and a C.“I took Russian and I got a C, which was a tremendous shock,” said Mansfield. “But it was typical at that time.”And while the Russian grade might have been a scar on the future political theorist’s transcript, it fits his middle initial just fine.—Staff writer Lulu...
...arrest in Houston is a shock to an agency that plays an important role in aviation security. Although there have been air marshals flying for decades, on Sept. 11, 2001, the numbers had dwindled to only three dozen agents. After the attacks, the agency was drastically increased in size and many agents were drafted from other law enforcement agencies and local police departments. New agents were - and are - subject to security screening and background checks similar to other federal law enforcement agencies, which are required to be updated only every five years...
...they forget that they are in a hospital.” Though the Story-Time players may not be acting out Shakespeare, performing for hospitalized children has difficulties all its own. Not surprisingly, interacting with sick children can often be a heart-wrenching experience. Meyer describes the initial shock at dealing with “the fact that these kids are in hospitals, not playing around outside or studying in school like we were as children.” Most challenging is coming to terms with the fact that “most of them have quite debilitating illnesses...
Prince“Black Sweat”Maybe it shouldn’t shock me that a man who once changed his name to a symbol would change something as simple as his views on sex in the media. But I can’t help but be a little astounded that Prince, a card-carrying Jehovah’s Witness who just two years ago complained to Newsweek that “Now there’s all these dirty videos...we’re bombarded,” would so quickly and so gleefully add to that bombardment...
...realize how public and permanent their data truly is.“There is a cultural shift such that students aren’t even sensitive to their own privacy,” says Harvard College Professor Harry R. Lewis ’68. “Things that shock me don’t shock my children.”And Lewis is right. Students post everything on these websites: their sexual proclivities, illicit photographs, and perhaps most worrisome, their contact information.With the advent of blogging and continuously updated online news media, access to information is almost unparalleled. Even...