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...Don’t (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
...disaster. We understand that Expos is an extremely difficult class and that it can be traumatic for freshmen, especially those who wrote little in high school. While a pass/fail Expos may soften the transition to Harvard, it is the unfortunate truth that for many students a transcript grade is what compels them to work. Expos is a cornerstone course in which the educational experience critically involves investing time and energy in the writing and improvement of papers. Both the class itself, and the writing program at Harvard in general, would be immensely diminished without a grade as an incentive...
...nuclear program, and is sticking instead to its familiar diplomatic tactics of ambiguity and provocation. Last week, North Korea jangled nerves around the region again by announcing it had unloaded 8,000 fuel rods at its Yongbyon reactor?a step that would allow it to harvest more weapons-grade plutonium for a stockpile already estimated at up to eight weapons. The North lobbed a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan (or East Sea) earlier this month. And U.S. officials have been warning that spy satellites have detected increased activity around a suspicious test facility in the northeast...
...pretty upset that it seems like my grade may be adversely affected if I don’t fill out the CUE evaluation,” wrote Michael W. Reckhow ’06 in an e-mail to The Crimson after receiving one such message from his professor...
...ordinary kids to come forward, it's also true that when glamorous people suffer from something, a bit of the glitter rubs off on the condition. "Cutting grew into a huge fad at school," says Michelle, 13, who is being treated at the Vista Del Mar clinic. "In seventh grade it seemed every single girl had tried it--except the really smart ones." Then there is the Internet, where cutting chat rooms are just a keystroke away. Many offer support for kids who want to stop, but just as many wink at the problem and even subtly encourage...