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This was to be a banner year for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). With the drama surrounding former University President Lawrence H. Summers firmly behind it and a trusted leader, interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles at the helm, the Faculty would finally be able to focus on reexamining pedagogy and completing an inspiring curricular review. FAS would be primed for a heady future after the handover to a new dean at the end of the year.If only it were so. Instead, leadership shake-ups, a budget deficit, pedagogical malaise, turf wars, and damaged relations with...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: All the Faculty’s Failures | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...banner year for new social spaces cropping up around campus, as the College tried to address student complaints of a social life centered around cramped dorm rooms and exclusive final clubs. Additions including the Cambridge Queen’s Head pub, the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH), the Lamont Library Café, and Women’s Center opened to levels of student enthusiasm that ranged from the subdued to the ecstatic...

Author: By Aditi Banga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Place To Call Your Own | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...people at Harvard still seem so unsatisfied. Two years ago, national newspapers made much of the fact that Harvard, in terms of surveyed student satisfaction, had ranked almost at the bottom of 31 elite schools. It is difficult to forget all those banner headlines, basically enthusing, “see? They’re not happy with Harvard!” The responses of last year’s graduating class in the annual senior survey were better but continued a “three-year trend of dissatisfaction among undergraduates,” the Crimson reported...

Author: By Tina Wang | Title: Finding Happiness at Harvard | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

...come?" In December 2005, fed up with the lack of response, four relatives bypassed the petition office and marched straight to the red gates of Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party headquarters. Fu Yuru, mother of He Guoqiang, who is serving a suspended death sentence for the crime, held aloft a banner calling for her son's freedom. The gesture cost the then 56-year-old 14 days in detention before she, like the others, was shipped back to Zhuangtouying with a warning to stick to established procedures in the future. "We had been to the Supreme Court and were not treated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Order | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...Fear of Shi'ite militias also prevented Azhour from posting a black banner to mark Amer's death. There was no question of holding his wake in a mosque; fearful of attacks, many of them refuse to allow wakes. Nor could Azhour hold the wake in their former neighborhood, where their old friends and neighbors could attend. So she invited a handful of family members to the home of an uncle who lives across town. Nobody came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iraq, Every Day Is Memorial Day | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

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