Month: February 2010
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“Are you stupid?” A gaffe of Olympic proportions
VANCOUVER, via satellite — It would have gone down as one of the great gaffes in sports history, if it had been in a sport that anyone cared about. It…
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Inflating Carolina: Achieving a workable solution
GRADE INFLATION IS SUCH A PROBLEM for the University of North Carolina that I can’t even find a list of UNC’s recent valedictorians. Why not? Probably because printing it out…
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Inflating Carolina: The root of the problem
CAROLINA, AND ABOUT EVERY OTHER COLLEGE in America, has a problem with continually inflating grades, having become an institution where all the students are above average — almost literally. As…
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The New York Times v. Citizens United v. FEC
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ABOUT the recent Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Some of the organs of the major mass media, which I won’t mention by…
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