Ryan Gardner on September 21st, 2005

Princeton wants to cut the number of undergraduates who receive “A-plus,” “A” or “A-minus” grades to 35 percent. It got about halfway there last year, when 41 percent of grades were in the “A” range, said the study by the Faculty Committee on Grading.
Every year we accept smarter students. For years we’ve seen a trend [...]

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Ryan Gardner on September 21st, 2005

Rescuers today found a woman trapped inside a man’s body. After the storm, he was suffering from a great deal of confusion about his situation:
The problem was that even though the concept was appealing, I didn’t feel like a woman trapped inside a man’s body. I wasn’t a woman. I wasn’t a little girl. [...]

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Ryan Gardner on September 21st, 2005

She clinched the title by beating out Miss Georgia and Miss Kentucky in the “YMCA Dance” competition - new this year.
In a written statement she said:
As moms, if we give our children hope and self-esteem we’ll see the whole range of social pathologies shrink to manageable proportions.

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