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...Most insidiously, grading in science courses is notoriously stiffer than in humanities and social science courses. Last month, the College Dean’s Office announced that the number of As and A-minuses awarded to undergraduates last year had crept above the 50 percent mark—a figure which is befuddling to any science concentrator stuck in any one of the numerous courses that curves around a B plus...
...introducing technology from the athletic-wear industry. But in Prada's hands even those fabrics were not used in a traditional way: nylon replaced leather for bags; it became shiny, luxurious and embroidered for evening coats; or it was woven with purer yarns like cashmere to give it a stiffer hand. "I like to mix it up and make things in the opposite way than they were meant for," she explains. "Sometimes I ask [fabric mills] to mix up new combinations for the most normal fabrics?like something more stiff or more fluid or more opaque. I hate generically appealing...
...football leagues. Among the most immediate effects is that home teams must play in empty stadiums if their security apparatus is inadequate, which means that at least half of Italy's top-division games this weekend are likely to be played only for the television cameras. Additional measures include stiffer penalties for violence inside or outside stadiums, bans on group ticket sales to away games to limit organized " road trips" for hard-core fan clubs, and a crackdown on teams that turn a blind eye to violent supporters...
...which was completely redesigned for the 2007 model year. The outgoing edition had scarcely been updated in a decade, and Jaguar overhauled everything from the sheet metal to the transmission. Instead of steel, the new XK is sheathed in high-strength aluminum, forming a shell that's 30% stiffer and 10% lighter. The XKR's V-8 engine got a boost, producing 420 h.p. and 413 lb.-ft. of torque--good for a 0-to-60-m.p.h. time of 4.9 sec. And Jag loaded up on high-tech gadgetry like shift paddles on the steering wheel and parking assist...
...drug sales to minors. Indeed, in cases at Harvard there has been no indication undergraduates charged under the school-zone law intended to distribute the drugs to minors—and certainly not to the minors occupying the buildings whose vicinity suddenly renders drug offenders eligible for a much stiffer sentence. The undergrad with a dozen psychedelic mushrooms living high in Mather Tower, for instance, is not interested in padding his clientele with the young learners of Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary far below. In these instances, the judiciary’s function of meting out well-contemplated, proportional justice...