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...University Committee on Calendar Reform recommended last month that FAS, along with Harvard’s nine other schools, adopt a uniform academic calendar that starts each year soon after Labor Day, moves Commencement to late May and ends the fall semester before winter vacation...
...blog, "private" or not, risks being discovered on the World Wide Web. Dawn Friedman, 34, a mom from Columbus, Ohio, kept a blog, This Woman's Work, without telling people she knew. But when her mother Googled her way onto the blog and learned her daughter was planning to adopt, she got upset and asked Friedman, "When were you going to tell me this?" Says Friedman: "I guess it's naive to assume someone you know isn't reading your blog. When I look back to earlier entries, I realize there were things I probably shouldn't have written...
...Capitol to write the homeland-security funding portion of the USA Patriot Act--a massive and sweeping bill that was propelled into law just six weeks after Sept. 11. Under the direction of Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, they decided to adopt a formula that had been used in years past for distributing terrorism-preparedness funds, a formula that had never been written into law before and that was designed for a sum of money that was incomparably smaller. This unusual formula mandated that each state receive a minimum of three-quarters...
...wife began treatment last November, turning his duties over to his staff of ministers. When her chemo-therapy was completed, he returned to the pulpit late last month and moved forward on his global mission with renewed purpose. He wants each of Saddleback's 2,000 small groups to adopt a village in a developing country, make mission trips there and send educational and medical supplies, along with spiritual and financial support, to its residents. Eventually, Warren hopes to expand the program to the more than 10,000 other Purpose-Driven churches around the nation. "I think God gets...
...dangerous to adopt a constitutional amendment that denies any individual a right. How hypocritical are those who for decades have championed states' rights and now want to place a constitutional ban on marriage, a matter that has always been left to the states? Who ever heard of federally approved marriage? That is what such an amendment would impose. Tinkering with the Constitution would be a big mistake. MARTIN SCHLANK Aberdeen...