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...Sept. 11 attacks have made an already difficult job even tougher, the panelists said. “Get the best pair of shoulder pads...get a baseball bat and boxer gloves. You’re in for a ride,” said New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, who is also president of the U.S. conference of mayors...
...He’s from the old school, smashmouth football, we’re tougher than them,” Rose says. “He really gets into it a lot, he enjoys the blue-collar, humble kid. Murphy’s a great recruiter, and when I met him here, he seemed very straightforward and very professional. I thought Harvard took football more seriously than any other school I visited...
...across departments. Some teachers see a B as a default grade for those who don’t receive A’s. A different teacher may distribute B’s according to a Bell curve. Not only does this penalize students who happen to take courses with tougher-grading professors, it also creates incentives for students to select courses with easier-grading instructors. And this in turn puts pressure on tougher-grading professors to inflate their grades, or else face dwindling enrollment in their courses. Grades are supposed to be an evaluation of how a student performs...
...smile. Im not that wild or crazy, but I do like Harvard a lot. Morris, a private and guarded person, cherishes his tight knit circle of friends. Im a lot goofier with my good friends, he says. His relatively high-profile status can be isolating, though. It makes it tougher to become friends with people sometimes, because people have preconceived notions...
...tougher draw is due largely to the tournament’s recent expansion from 48 to 64 teams, which necessitates that weaker automatic qualifiers play the higher seeds in the first round, rather than the best teams that fall short of 16 first-round byes...