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According to Maurer the upshot graduate students who are not native speakers or have not attended English-speaking institutions must have their language skills evaluated...
...discrimination suits. In increasing instances, they surpass men in the attitudes and abilities employers are looking for. This can be seen early in high school, where girls get better grades. "We listened more carefully to the teachers' assignments," Carol recalls, "while the guys thought they knew it all." The upshot is that more women are accepted by colleges and now outnumber men on campuses. They account for almost 55% of bachelor's degrees, and more than half the enrollments at leading law and medical schools. Many professors note that women are better at organizing their work and write with greater...
...Harvard process is very, very slow," says Leo Damrosch, chair of the English and American Literature and Language department. "The upshot...is it takes close to two years to get an offer made. All of the humanities are frustrated by that...
...upshot is people will be billed less in January [for the second semester] if they select to stay eight months," she said. "They can elect that at any point and have that rebated on their term bill. [The lengthened school year] primarily affected the first year class...
...case of O.J. Simpson, justice was nowhere to be found, but it wasn't being sought after either. What the trial did have to offer, however, was an analysis of racial clashes in America. The positive upshot of the O.J. trial is that America is now thinking--about race, about justice, and about the "problem of the color line...