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Thank you for reminding us of the influence of Bill Clinton. The Democrats have always had a problem with protecting their positions with intellectual rigor. Bill showed them how to do it. Malcolm Mumford, PASADENA, CALIF...
...Conventional wisdom has it that too many “passes” suggest a lack of academic rigor, meaning many transcript-conscious students dare not take more than one or two pass/fail classes in their four years. Allowing students to switch back to letter-grading late in the semester means that the “insurance” can be used more frequently and also gives students an incentive to continue to work hard in pass/fail classes in which they find themselves doing well...
Thank you for reminding us of the influence of Bill Clinton. The Democrats have always had a problem with protecting their positions with intellectual rigor. Bill showed them how to do it. Malcolm Mumford, PASADENA, CALIF...
...kind of “excitement, vision, and energy that leads to explosive, revolutionary things.” Bill P. Rauch ’84, the new artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, who was also considered for the position, said that Paulus “combines intellectual rigor with experimentation while caring about the audience. She is definitely a populist, after my own heart.” She expressed a desire to continue to make the A.R.T. “a center of arts at Harvard” and emphasized “that the primary constituency will...
...need to keep up with the Joneses, but because of a love of characters. We’re fascinated by other people, and the more real they seem, the better. We empathize with Holden Caulfield, Elizabeth Bennet, and Jay Gatsby; we agonize over their fictional decisions with a rigor comparable to the way we analyze our own. “Battlestar” has amazing characters, so numerous and well-developed that I could spend an entire extra article telling you about how terrific they are. But what’s the point if you’re already...