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  1. RT @VersoBooks: Today marks 145 years since the start of the Paris Commune - the uprising which liberated Paris for 72 days in 1871 https:/…

  2. RT @democracynow: Breast Cancer Patient Arrested for Protesting TPP: "It Would Actually Condemn Women to Death" http://t.co/fkc2e7mGRG
  3. Another London-based discussion of Rojava: https://t.co/IMenEkxMCY
  4. waterbottle, thank you so much for your response; you've responded to my every problem. And thank you, too, for your response piglet. I have a feeling that my program is more like the one waterbottle described. It sounds frustrating, but I hope your recommendation letter writers will be able to speak to the caliber of your program and the rigor with which they assess you?!
  5. Hello all. I write to ask whether professors' marks are less generous in the UK (or maybe even Europe more generally) than in the US. As an undergraduate in the US, my work virtually always achieved "A" marks. As a postgraduate student in the UK, my marks seem to be all across the board. I am having trouble figuring out whether my inconsistency is due to my own incompetence for work at a postgraduate level (and that it is simply the nature of graduate school to hold students to severe rigor), or due to the nature of grading in the US (more specifically, the severity of US grade inflation). I took graduate courses as an undergraduate and did extremely well, so I suspect that the answer is the latter; I am not sure and post, however, because I am curious about others' experiences of this matter. Is receiving a "B" in the UK mean something different than a "B" in the US? How common are "B"'s in graduate schools at each institution, respectively? Will "B"'s here foreclose my chances at a PhD, even if I achieve a first?
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