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...here is where grade inflation truly does the Harvard undergraduate a great service. Unlike other classes, one's grade in a Core tends to be somewhat beyond the student's control. Grade inflation merely ensures that the result, however arbitrary, is at least not catastrophic to one's GPA. I can only imagine the hue and cry that would erupt if the current Core program were not subject to grade inflation. Receiving an arbitrary grade somewhere between a "B-" and an "A," (which, according to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, is where 90 percent of Harvard grades...
...budget TV shows is all the more lovable because he's the deadly gangster of big budget glossy feature films. In Japan, where no one wants to lose face, to have the aplomb to make fun of yourself is almost transcendentally bitchin'. "I suppose my film persona is somewhat a reaction to my stand-up routine," says Beat. His own acting style, he says, is influenced by the traditional stagecraft of Japan's noh theater?long, intricate courtly dramas written to entertain the royal family a thousand years ago. "A noh mask is a completely expressionless mask," he explains...
...American widow with six daughters will have a tough time trying to stay in interior China. Already, the local authorities, after sending the deputy mayor to offer condolences, are making life somewhat difficult. Foreigners visiting the Morrisons are carefully vetted, apparently to limit publicity about the murder, which can only embarrass China as it tries to polish its international image to help its bid to bring the Olympics to Beijing in 2008. "We like her very much, but the Christian woman should return to America," says a local policeman. For now, Valori sits quietly in the tiny apartment she wants...
...just sitting on it and letting his people starve. Although the Europeans don't quite accept this, the Americans believe Saddam is winning the propaganda war by making the U.S. look like the bad guys. And they want to turn that around. But the other part, which is somewhat conflicting, is that they presumably need some kind of stick over his head to get weapons inspections. Right now they're leaning in the direction of maintaining some control over Saddam?s money to ensure he can't spend on weapons...
...experience of my friend is all too common. Harvard students faced with an unplanned pregnancy often feel like they have only one option--abortion. While some resources do exist that could be used to help pregnant students, finding them in the maze of Harvard offices and departments is somewhat like a scavenger hunt. And for a student faced with all the stress and emotional turmoil of a crisis pregnancy, the inability to find the financial, academic and residential assistance that she needs may make her feel like she is forced to choose between her child and her education...