Word: proportionment
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We are curious to see how Summers intends to apply his experience and intellect to the problems that Harvard students face. The University president has the opportunity, unfortunately little exercised during the Rudenstine years, to revamp the College and increase the quality of a Harvard education. Like Eliot, Lowell, Conant...
Unfortunately, the Blizzard of 2001 was blown far out of proportion. Students had excitedly awaited the promised three feet of snow and howling winds, yearning for a true dose of nature's wrath. Groups carefully decided how they would frolic; local hardware stores had a field day selling salt and...
Ironies aside, the demise of Milosevic has strengthened the tendency in NATO to discourage any redrawing of sovereign borders in the Balkans. And Western enthusiasm for policing the region's tribal wars will inevitably wane in proportion to any increase in direct danger to their troops. For some, that appears...
Even in a country like the U.S., you have an increasing proportion of the population that is vulnerable to these extremes in climate.
Why do I call our present grading a scandal? The level of grading at Harvard now is beyond all proportion with the excuses made on its behalf. Perhaps our students are better these days (I don't find them so), but not this much better. But if they are in...