Word: trended
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Crime rates in Cambridge have remained flat in recent years, while violent crime in Boston is skyrocketing, part of a nationwide trend of heightened violence.The number of Beantown shootings increased by 34 percent in 2005, according to Boston Police Department (BPD), while the violent crime rate in Cambridge dropped less than 1 percent. According to BPD Sergeant Thomas Sexton, there were 75 homicides in Boston in the last year, “the highest in ten years.”Sexton attributed the majority of violent crimes in Boston to the city’s juvenile population...
...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...
...said he plans to take students to participate in the Korean Manhae Festival and show how literature and poetry have crossed over to different genres of culture. “From the Summer School’s perspective, Ewha is an excellent partner at the forefront of the globalization trend underway in Korean higher education,” Dr. Robert Neugeboren, special programs director of the Harvard Summer School, wrote in an e-mail. “Its International Education Institute offers courses in a wide range of relevant fields, all taught in English at a level and quality consistent...
...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...