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...currently allows. The proposed legislation, however, is largely mute on the subject of the transition between the two systems. It leaves that issue for the new Standing Committee to decide during the 2007-2008 academic year. Current students, however, cannot afford to wait a year for the committee to crack open the Core. We fear that recent efforts to expand students’ options under the Core and allow more departmental classes to count will stagnate as faculty are allowed to abdicate responsibility to the new Standing Committee. If the Faculty is serious about changing general education at Harvard...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Lost in Translation | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

...truly regain its stature in the ECAC, the Crimson needs to find at least one player that can deliver in the crunch. Will any Harvard skater crack 20 goals next season...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GET A LODHA THIS: Three Questions Loom for Crimson | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

...love the entrepreneurial dirty jobs or the people who are literally just surviving on some crazy niche, like the avian vomitologist. Owl vomit looks very much like a piece of charcoal. The reason Don Cicoletti collects it is because if you crack the vomit open and start to pull it apart, you'll find the hair and bones from the prey the owl has swallowed whole. Don sells these things by the boatload to elementary schools, and the kids put the mouse back together again. This guy is making a living crawling through the woods looking for owl vomit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Someone's Gotta Love It | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

...roads, canals and overgrown footpaths snaking through the territory remain an eerie scene of violence, a jungle world reminiscent of Vietnam. At night, U.S. forces stand watch at two patrol bases in Zurah, a village at the western end of the valley. The crack of shots often pierces the darkness, the echoes of gunfire melting into the chorus of croaking frogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: The Small-Town War | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...Pakistan's army, it's unlikely that he will be forced from office. But a loss of support from his moderate base could deepen his dependence on fundamentalist parties, which are staunch supporters of the Taliban. If the protests against Musharraf continue, he will be even less inclined to crack down on the militants holding sway in Talibanistan--grim news for the U.S. and its allies and good news for their foes throughout the region. Says a senior U.S. military official in Afghanistan: "The bottom line is that the Taliban can do what they want in the tribal areas because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About Talibanistan | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

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