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...future, the ONLY instance when you will involve the Director with unit issues is after thorough discussion(s) with your unit management team," Berry wrote. "I will NOT again agree to meet with you UNLESS the meeting is scheduled by Ms. D'Andria or another member of the Freshman Union management...
...Ms. Reiter's and Mr. Becker's sake--and for the sake of anyone who might be tempted to agree with them--allow me to enumerate a few of the many problems brought on by grade inflation. Note that I do not advocate a curve, but rather merely adherence to higher standards, in which C would, once again, more or less represent...
...infamous article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (January 6, p. B1), by rewarding mediocrity we discourage excellence. An A should be a goal worth striving for, not something to be taken for granted. In discounting the possibility that grading policy can be used to elicit better work, Ms. Reiter demonstrates beyond all doubt that she has never taught Harvard students. Here, as elsewhere, easy grading breeds apathy...
...Ms. Khouri, it's work -- and actresses aren't getting much of that, in good roles or bad. Writers and directors will still make room for women's roles if they fit the new conventions of "nurturer or shrew," as comedian % Ann Magnuson defines them in her new one-woman show. "Basically, I vacillate between those two roles," she says. "The dialogue boils down to either 'Fme' or 'Fyou...
Researchers later learned that the level of gamma interferon present in the cerebrospinal fluid of MS patients skyrocketed just before and during acute attacks. Attention therefore shifted to a cousin molecule, beta interferon, which appears to play the role of inhibiting gamma. At the University of Chicago, Dr. Avertano Noronha and his colleagues demonstrated that beta interferon markedly decreased the activity of white blood cells obtained from multiple sclerosis patients. Beta interferon, they found, not only restrained the proliferation of these cells, it also shut down their production of myelin-destroying compounds...