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...with the concentrations. The Harvard Writing Project, which was created by the Expository Writing Program in 1995, has worked with concentrations in publishing booklets designed to advise students in writing for a specific course or discipline. Eight booklets, along with three shorter pamphlets, have been published thus far. We applaud this effort and hope for a prolific future for the program. We also encourage the integration of some of these booklets into Expos classes, which will increase the future applicability of the writing skills taught...
...with edges and quirks, sass and style, to a movie system that is short on artistic and marketing innovation, then risky business might turn out to be smart business. It could also produce some good films. If that happens, then even a skeptic may want to stand up and applaud. --Reported by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
...Summers occasionally bruises an ego or two, we’ll stand by him anyway. Like many, we do not always agree with our president, but we respect and applaud him for his tenacity, zeal, and willingness to stand up for the academy and freedom of thought at his own expense, while using the power of his office to implement initiatives that work to improve our beloved Harvard. There is no crisis of leadership in the president’s office. Thank you, President Summers, for all you have done and continue to do. We’d appreciate...
...himself a deep hole, and it will take a sincere, sustained effort to re-earn the confidence and respect of a majority of the faculty. An apology is not sufficient, as Summers has apologized enough in the past, with varying results. Neither are more task forces enough. Although we applaud Summers for forming two committees to explore problems of women in science, the current problem is centered on a single person. Instead, Summers must detail exactly what steps he will take to change his curt leadership style and resented policies...
...scene of such disappointment four and a half years ago when talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority failed to stop the second intifada from spiraling out of control, recently played host to the unveiling of a new cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. We enthusiastically applaud the new cease-fire agreed to last Tuesday by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and fervently hope that it will be strictly obeyed by both sides...