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...presidential nominating process. But until recently, the plan appeared to many to be wishful thinking. Though Republicans followed suit in moving their caucus up as well, the corresponding decisions by Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina to schedule their primaries or caucuses even earlier in the 2008 calendar - not to mention the choice by such crucial states as California, Arizona and Colorado to join the flood of states holding their primary on February 5 - stole most of the thunder from Nevada...
Frigid temperatures, college-football bowl games, post-New Year's Eve lethargy--the Iowa caucuses have a lot going against them this election cycle. Still, despite months of electoral-calendar one-upmanship, the Hawkeye State held onto its status as the nation's first presidential matchup by moving its caucuses from Jan. 14 to Jan. 3. The Iowa contests first achieved national prominence in 1972 and '76. Since then, they have provided momentum to many a trailing candidate while halting the progress of more than a few presumed front runners...
...even if the world is saved in September 2012, don't these people know the deductions made from the Mayan calendar - that the world will end on Dec. 21 of that year? They have only three months to live...
...that way about here? The UC is supposed to represent our interests. What if a candidate ran on pushing the administration for entirely free tuition? Pressuring the College to recognize and support the ROTC program? Representing students in the execution of the new General Education requirements? Speeding up the calendar reform implementation process? Guaranteeing more funding for student groups (not for alcohol, but for the Phillips Brook House to subsidize more undergraduate charity work, or for CityStep to get more buses to and from intercity Boston schools, or for a Jello-filled Jacuzzi for my blockmates)? Things would have been...
...much on our minds right now that it would be all too easy to completely forget about that last midterm. Hopefully our TFs also share in our seasonal charity and goodwill, but I wouldn’t count on it. This is why Harvard’s idiosyncratic calendar is a good thing, and why students will come to miss January finals when they eventually disappear. In addition to making us feel both elitist and victimized (a winning Crimson combo if there ever was one), our hellish Januaries permit our relatively fun Decembers. No one is honestly doing that much...