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...counteract the possible trend of increasing reliance on such services, HBS is considering increasing the number of interviews, administering different essay questions for different applicants, and monitoring students as they write their essays to ensure authenticity, according to a recent Boston Globe article...
...marks accounted for 25.0% of all grades last year.And the fraction of failures among all undergraduate grades remained at a two-decade low of 0.4 percent.Gross wrote that “grade compression continues to be a concern,” and he urged Faculty members to discuss the trend “at the departmental level.”But Mansfield is going public with his concerns.UNDOING THE RIGHT-SKEWMansfield’s C-minus moniker and his outspoken opposition to grade inflation may have deterred some undergrads from taking his courses in the past...
...reason.” I’d rather read that she has a hatred of mullets or that she gags at the sight of fake-designer bags. At least, I’d like her better. Unfortunately, Facebook’s orgy of positivity highlights a worrisome trend of optimism globally. We have become consumed by what is good in the world, and what makes us happy, thereby losing sight of what really drives society—antipathy. Change must happen now before it’s too late, and it must start in the places that matter...
This disappoints the reader, and it is supposed to, for we want to see Jefferson buck every trend regarding slavery and be the revolutionary he was in 1776 in the fight for political independence. But this simply was not the case. Burstein admirably examines the president as an objective historian and not as a love-struck biographer...
...Searchlight Pictures Directed by Ol Parker 3 stars I’m always hesitant to trust movies that take their titles from the lyrics of popular songs. Mediocre romantic comedies especially have notoriously abused this trend with less-than thrilling results (“Sweet Home Alabama” comes to mind). Writer/director Ol Parker develops “Imagine Me & You” around the Turtles’s oldie “Happy Together.” Although borrowing lyrics is a standard fixture of romantic comedies, “Imagine” posits an unexpected love triangle...