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...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 some measures better, the proper response is to raise our standards and demand more of our students. Cars are better made now than they used to be. So when buying a car would you be satisfied with one that was as good as they used...
Bill and Hillary Clinton have launched their separate lives, both of them shadowed by the recent crop of scandal. He is in New York City, struggling to rise above his mistakes; she's in Washington, trying just as hard to burrow into her work and begin her future. What was supposed to be the triumphant start of a new career has turned into something altogether less appealing. To get a sense of how she's coping, TIME spent last Tuesday with Clinton as she went about her Senate business. She denies that the furor over pardons and gifts and pricey...
...call for more affordable health care (and a typically proud move, given her history on the subject). No matter that only a couple of other Senators drifted in to hear it; the New York press pack that surrounds her afterward wants to talk about the speech, not the scandal. That's a good way to start...
...rushes up to shake her hand. "Hi, dear, how are you!" Clinton gushes. "I was just in Watertown yesterday." Next comes a New York City stockbroker skeptical of the Bush tax cut, then a delegation from Kyrgyzstan, then an environmental lobbyist. It happens whenever she walks about Capitol Hill--scandal or no, Hillary remains a celebrity. Most Senators have aides brief them during walks to hearings; Clinton has given that up for the most part and budgeted more time for trips because of the constant interruptions. ("We're learning all the rules of the Senate," she explains, "and then those...
Clinton's Latest Scandal...