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Verba said his committee had extensively debated its two major options—maintaining the current Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) calendar or moving to one that would better align the calendars of all of Harvard’s schools by moving final exams to before winter break...
Indeed, some of the proposals that will go before the Faculty this May, such as moving away from the Core and pushing concentration choice to a later time, seem to align Harvard with its peers, not set it apart...
...ideas about how they would like to use the month of January. Indeed, much of the support for calendar reform stems from a desire to use the month of January for innovative new curricular projects. They argue that J-term is not simply an afterthought in the quest to align Harvard’s calendars, but an integral part of the reason. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 calls the potential J-term “an opportunity for us to offer types of instruction that we don’t offer during the semester...
Motivated by University President Lawrence H. Summers’ desire for all of Harvard’s schools to align their calendars, the Working Group on Pedagogy spent this academic year discussing an overhaul of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) calendar...
...Iraq believe Moqtada may have the support of around one-third of the community (which, as a whole comprises almost two-thirds of Iraq's population). The clerics around Sistani, and the Shiite parties on the Governing Council, see Moqtada as a dangerous hothead. But they're unlikely to align themselves with the Coalition forces against him. That's a game played by Sadr, too, who styles his movement not in opposition to Sistani, but instead as a kind of militant vanguard pursuing the same objectives - majority rule and early elections (in which, given Moqtada's extensive party organization...