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...exam period consisting of mandatory review sessions, feverish work on a final paper, and various required course meetings. It doesn’t take much to see how unhappy students are under the current schedule. Only days after toasting to a new year full of fresh starts and new beginnings, we trudge back to Cambridge to rehash a semester’s worth of course material, anxious about our papers and exams and angry about our short winter break. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In the spring of 2004, a University-wide Committee...
Brandish your whips. George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford announce that production will soon begin on the fourth Indiana Jones film. "The best one yet," says Lucas...
Iraq Hearings Begin Congress to explore ways forward...
...assume privately that a muscular-sounding surge now is chiefly designed to give Bush the political cover to execute a partial withdrawal on his terms later. "We think that by bringing the level of violence down and bringing the level of Iraqi support up, we will be able to begin to hand over the country," Kagan told TIME...
...After all, the Gerald Ford being honored this week is not the same man who tried to jolly America out of economic doldrums with "whip inflation now" buttons. He's also not the same person who came into the White House to begin with. Ford served as President for two and half years; he served in the House for 24 years. He arrived in 1949 as a surprise winner in his G.O.P. primary, who got to Congress largely because of his tenacious campaigning and charm. He was known as a congenial back-slapper and talented maneuverer among the House...