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Feldstein’s Ec 10 lectures have been a common cause of frustration among students. Last spring, Feldstein’s overall CUE Guide rating was 2.7 out of 5, putting him in the bottom 1 percent of the 499 professors who were rated...
...jokingly suggested instituting A-pluses and A-plus-pluses as a way to ameliorate a system where two grades—‘A’ and ‘A-minus’—measure the top half of students and seven grades measure the bottom half...
...wasn’t all good news. In the last at-bat of Mann’s career, with runners waiting on second and third in the bottom of the ninth and a two-out, 14-6 deficit to overcome, the captain struck out to end the game. The final pitch: a called strike on a 3-2 fastball that looked inside. Gracefully, Mann bowed out and shook hands with the opposing team...
Then a history concentrator, Halberstam says he had difficulty focusing on his schoolwork, and graduated without honors. Finishing in the bottom half of his class, Halberstam would have been hard-pressed to believe that he could ever be a member of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honors society...
...emphasis on the bottom line was not then what it is now,” he says. “The guys I worked with, they had long-range views about what was good for the country, good for the city. The right word is, frankly, cultivated...