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Seven thousand miles away on the very same day, the Pentagon was firing a more old-fashioned round on Capitol Hill--a five-year, $2 trillion budget plan larded with cold war-era weapons. There's the Crusader howitzer, a cannon so cumbersome that in 2000 a presidential candidate named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons Of Afghanistan | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

“It is more useful to define what we mean by work at difference levels than to say your course should have this distribution,” she says. “The complexity of the problem comes from the fact that we desire this to be a...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty To Submit Grade Inflation Report | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

One of Loury’s most useful contributions in this book is his identification of the practice of racial discrimination as another red herring in the discourse on race. He contrasts racial discrimination—treating people unequally because of their race—with a phenomenon he defines...

Author: By Divya A. Mani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Glenn Loury: Shades of Black | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

Creating and enforcing such broad standards of quality is a difficult process about which we will present our suggestions in more detail on Friday. Letter grades must have a standard translation in terms of quality of work and thought so instructors are able to give meaningful grades that students understand...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Reviving the Meaning of Grades | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

Nevertheless, students say they still find the suggestions useful.

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Theft Runs Deep | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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