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...racial theory of grade inflation is said to have been inspired by anecdotes heard at the time about lenient grading of black students. Gossip, doubtless selectively stated and selectively heard, is a dangerous basis for a social theory, as is a single person’s practice or experience. In fact, the racial theory of grade inflation is so spectacularly wrong that it is hard to know how or why it got started...
...will have noticed, to become famous these days. Eating a rat or sticking a pig on Survivor is enough to get you talked about around the water cooler the next morning. If someone should ever actually get laid by an insignificant other on Temptation Island 2, that would doubtless do the trick too. We tune in to "reality TV" in hope of seeing one or more of our fellow citizens degrade themselves for (mostly) short money and (very) momentary fame. Watching these shows, we shake our head wryly: What are we coming to? Where will it all end? But there...
...made a polite, sensitive call." The officer's family and the Marines disagree. In a letter to CBS executives obtained by the Washington Post, General James Jones wrote that Wallace's "tenacity was offensive and the conversation ceased only when a family friend abruptly terminated the connection." Wallace has doubtless been hung up on before. Maybe he just thought that was how ordinary people say goodbye...
...Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems...
...confidentiality of our process would make it tough for a student member, who would doubtless feel that he or she was 'representing' students and yet could not talk about the actual cases being heard. I think there would be pressure and conflict in such a role," he wrote...