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...year would start immediately after Labor Day and final exams would be given prior to winter recess in December. Before the four months of spring semester, the Committee recommended the institution of a three-week January Term (J-Term) in which students could choose to travel, perform community service, conduct research, or even enroll in an intensive academic course. Abstractly, such an opportunity to focus intensely on one pursuit seems like a rare luxury, especially in comparison to the frenetic pace of the fall and spring semesters. And, to be fair, the concept has proven successful at a number...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Say No to the J-Term | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...Waltz for My Grandson,” Palmieri left the piano to conduct the work. It was a little ditty moving slowly at first that peaked at its magnificent end. The whole work sped up, the beat solidified, and Palmieri jumped back on the piano for a rousing finish...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Palmieri’s Jazz a True Delight | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

...Wolfowitz, who raised the idea of invading Iraq with President Bush just a week after September 11, is known for keeping many irons in lots of fires. An aide once told me he had seen Wolfowitz on several occasions conduct multiple telephone conversations simultaneously. His job at the Pentagon was to think the big thoughts and let the others worry about the details. His Pentagon boss, Donald Rumsfeld, once explained their relationship with a modesty that was false but nonetheless telling: "Paul's an academic. I'm a Cook County politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rude Awakening for Wolfowitz | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

With papers to write, sports to play, and meetings to conduct, mental health inevitably gets brushed aside in the full calendar of a Harvard student’s life. Even for those students who understand the importance of mental health issues, taking care of one’s mental health requires time and energy that is hard to schedule in between sections and summer job applications. However, with 45 percent of college students reporting in a survey conducted by the American College Health Association that they have felt so depressed at some point during college as to be unable...

Author: By Susan L. Putnins | Title: My Prerogative | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...Cuomo's code of conduct also bans gifts or trips from lenders to university employees. After allegations surfaced this month that Student Loan Xpress had given stock grants or paid consulting fees to financial-aid officers at six schools who were recommending the lender to their students, those employees were placed on leave pending internal investigations. Likewise, a senior manager at the Department of Education was suspended for allegedly holding stock in the parent company of Student Loan Xpress while he oversaw lenders in the federal student loan program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Clean on Student Loans | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

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