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...It’s much better to do this right than to do this fast.” The proposal was misguided to begin with, and while it might have been easier for Kirby to press ahead solely to save face, it is admirable that he decided to abandon the plan after realizing its flaws. The broader examination that Kirby suggested yesterday of Harvard College’s academic shortcomings—including its shoddy advising system and dislocated process for hiring teaching fellows—is necessary to tackle current problems of undergraduate education. In deciding to adopt such...
...surprising about-face, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby told The Crimson yesterday he has decided to abandon his push to implement undergraduate preregistration...
Recently, tunnels have played a significant role in Harvard’s relationship with the city of Cambridge. Harvard decided to abandon its plans for a tunnel connecting the two government department buildings currently being constructed on either side of Cambridge Street just past the Graduate School of Design. This was a serious blow to the project, which depended on the tunnel as a means of moving both people and supplies safely under the street. Mid-Cambridge residents, who fought the tunnel with everything they had, not only lost out on some nice incentives that Harvard was offering, but also...
...except from ever-loyal Great Britain, is just not going to come. With implacable French and German opposition—and now the prospect of Russia also joining their antiwar alliance—multilateral intervention is no longer a possibility. Nor is the idea that the Bush administration will abandon its determination to oust Saddam Hussein...
While Klein's vision of a Middle East peace plan calls for Israel to abandon most of the settlements and the Palestinians to give up the right of return, a just peace must also involve recognition by Israel that, contrary to its argument that Palestinian civilians left voluntarily, Israel forcibly expelled them from their homes in 1948. Israel must also give the Palestinians some form of compensation. MAHA MUNAYYER Little Falls...