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Last year the Red Sox were forced to make do with a substandard selection of mediocre rookies and arm-weary veterans. Joe Kerrigan and his staff coaxed as much as they could from the likes of Brett Saberhagen, Rod Beck and Tomo Okha—but such a staff could clearly never be expected to win a World Series. The injury to Pedro Martinez was, of course, vital, but even before he went down the staff looked decidedly thin. His injury was merely a convenient peg for a slide that would have doubtless occurred at some point with a patchy...
...Last year, in an attempt to provide students with more accurate feedback as to where they stood in his class, “C-minus” gave each student two grades: one to reflect the inevitably substandard quality of his work and another higher grade to comfortably pad his transcript. This year, in an attempt to give employers and grad schools more accurate feedback as to where students stood in Harvard classes, the ECP recommended giving two evaluations on each student’s transcript: a grade to reflect the (supposed) quality of his work, and the percentage...
...best, the show is short and the service is unhelpful. The $30 brunch will leave customers with a financial headache as well as a medical one. And considering one will need to go elsewhere to find satisfying food and prolonged entertainment, the brunch at Dan Aykroyd’s substandard chain induces the blues instead of relieving them. Those who seek a hangover cure should turn to a Bloody Mary, not a bloody...
...live album such as Experience: Jill Scott 826+ is an ambitious follow-up to 1999’s acclaimed Who Is Jill Scott? This is particularly true as Experience relegates all the new studio material to the “+” disc, a trick usually reserved for substandard B-side material needed to beef up an ailing compilation...
...feel that certain things were deferred,” said Malkin, who said that he presented former Athletic Director William J. Cleary ’56 with suggestions for improvements after reading Crimson articles portraying the MAC as a substandard facility...