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...remained optimistic about the decisions that national leaders have made about trade. “Almost every global leader has pledged to avoid protectionist actions and I think that reflects a change in intellectual mindset,” he said. The event, organized by the Harvard International Relations Council as part of their “International Relations Week,” attracted only a handful of students to Ticknor Lounge. The IRC has seven more events planned for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday...
...others in the field should do to collect evidence of the usage. "Twenty-three people at 18 or 19 locations around the world chimed in on this thing, and we got a perfectly serviceable set of instructions in two days," says Tom Fingar, who headed the National Intelligence Council from 2005 to 2008. "Nobody called a meeting, there was no elaborate 'Gotta go back and check with Mom to see if this is the view of my organization.' " Last year traffic on Intellipedia became so heavy that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence had to find extra money...
...Verba Committee developed a new calendar that consisted of two four-month semesters separated by a one-month break. But calendar reform subsequently fell by the wayside amid a focus on the pending curricular review and the controversies of the Summers administration. In spring 2007, the Undergraduate Council renewed the discussion, calling for an undergraduate referendum on calendar reform and proposing a plan that deviated from the Verba report in omitting the J-Term. At the end of that academic year, interim President Derek C. Bok announced that the Harvard Corporation had approved a plan modeled on the Verba...
Most freshmen and sophomores registered satisfaction with their freshman and sophomore advising in the College’s mid-year advising survey, the Advising Programs Office reported at a presentation to the Undergraduate Council yesterday. More than 90 percent of sophomores are satisfied with their House advising, and between 80 and 90 percent of freshmen found their Peer Advising Fellows helpful and accessible, according to a statement by Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere after yesterday’s meeting. The survey, which solicited student opinion on the freshmen advising program, the Peer Advising Fellows program, and the sophomore...
Union representatives and members of the Harvard community petitioned the City Council yesterday in response to the University’s low-wage worker cuts. The resolution that came before the Council proposed an economic stimulus package in which the City of Cambridge would exempt Harvard from its payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT). The resolution’s sponsor, Counsellor Marjorie C. Decker, said that the resolution is a symbolic method to highlight the absurdity of the layoffs. At the last Council meeting, Decker said she thought this type of gesture would shame Harvard into halting layoffs...