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That Harvard has a grade inflation problem is news to no one. What is surprising, though, is that this issue has persisted despite its acknowledgment by students, professors, and the media. This may be because the obvious solution—grade deflation—is both unpalatable and difficult to implement. Instead, a more positive way to combat grade inflation and reward students for exemplary academic work would be to raise the grading scale to include A-pluses...
Hayward noted that when he attempted to address the problem of cell phone coverage in the Quad, he initially faced the administration’s skepticism, which at one point, questioned the necessity of cell phones...
...because he was able to make “clear the issue was a security problem,” Hayward said he was able to successfully enact a cell phone service tower in the Quad for AT&T—one of the most popular service carriers on campus...
...problem is that no two definitions of what constitutes "federal funding of abortion" are alike. Throughout the summer and fall, pro-choice Democrats have insisted that legislative fixes to prevent direct funding of abortion procedures had solved the problem. At the same time, however, most of their pro-life colleagues, as well as the influential U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), continued to maintain that funding problems still existed because federal subsidies to help people buy health insurance on a government-managed exchange could end up going to private insurance plans that covered abortions. (Read "How Abortion Could Imperil Health...
...could make a stronger case on preventing piracy, says James McGregor, the former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China. As China tries to move beyond cheap manufacturing, its companies will begin to suffer more from poor protection of intellectual property. Piracy "is still a horrendous problem here and it's alarming for the business community," he says. "It's a win-win, because China wants to build an innovation society...