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...real problem lies in the virtual monopoly on the attention of college-bound families that the influential U.S. News rankings hold. The rankings reach 11 million people and are the oldest and most standard “objective” comparative measure of universities. In second and third place come the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Washington Monthly rankings. Have you heard of either? Do college-bound seniors (and their ambitious parents) lustfully chant them in their sleep? The U.S. News rankings rule, and no other consistent, equally respected measure exists...
...proliferation of rankings would alleviate many students and their families of a great deal of pressure. Application season in elite America is a time of great suffering. Admissions porn litters the living rooms of millions of ambitious families, most of them in a state of nervous collapse. College-bound seniors exhaust saliva from the sheer fatigue of sealing envelopes, frantically competing for seats on the Great Meritocratic Conveyor Belt...
Selenium, 200 mcg of an organic (yeast-bound) form...
...Fatah officials fled last month to Jordan. In Nablus, a former Interior Minister narrowly escaped being assassinated Sept. 20 by a group of masked men. Meanwhile, the leader of the Fatah militia in the West Bank town of Jenin said two weeks ago that he no longer considers himself bound by Abbas' "calmness" agreement with the various Palestinian factions. Nowhere among the Fatah men is there the trust that binds Hamas activists. "I don't exclude the possibility that the Authority will kill me," says Abu Samhadana...
...Princeton is currently aware, the adjustment to any new grading system is bound to be rocky. Unlike Princeton’s gradual model, a drastic rescaling of grades would make it impossible to calculate a cumulative GPA for students spending part of their time under each system. Fortunately, fears that grade deflation place students’ futures at risk, in terms of graduate school admissions and job hunting, are largely unfounded, because Harvard’s spot in the limelight would make certain that any dramatic grading change, like the cap of A-grades at Princeton, would be widely publicized...