The Downing Street Memo said that intelligence was being manipulated in order to produce a war against Iraq. The AP now reveals that Bolton got a UN arms inspector fired. Why? Apparently because he wasn’t towing the Bush Administration line: John R. Bolton flew to Europe in 2002 to confront the head of a global [...]
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Calm Down, Teach
Posted in Culture, General, Media, School on June 5, 2005 | Comments Off
An inexperienced visiting professor at American University was shocked to discover that . . . students complain about bad grades. This horror prompted her report in the Washington Post today; I took a look, and with more than a few notches on my adjunct-professor belt I can report that, yes, grade inflation is a serious [...]