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...does approve changes to the calendar, students would still have a long wait before they can enjoy stress-free winter breaks and easy cross-registration at the University’s other schools. Any large-scale changes to the calendar must be approved by the Harvard Corporation—the University’s executive governing body—which is set to meet on June 6. If the Corporation approves Bok’s recommendation, the changes will take at least two years to implement, according to Secretary of the Faculty David B. Fithian...
...Calendar reform has been a perennial issue at Harvard. In September 2003, then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and the University’s deans publicly supported a universal calendar for Harvard’s schools and announced the creation of Verba’s cross-school committee to “consider and propose calendar guidelines applicable to Harvard as a whole...
...Clapp ’82. Her first memories of Tranfaglia include a characteristic Marine Corps haircut acquired during a summer spent in boot camp “just for an experience,” and another summer souvenir—a single sunburned side picked up during a cross-country bike trip and debuted the following fall...
...that "it is harder, longer and more expensive than the path offered to those immigrants who come here legally." The Senator also went to unusual lengths to sympathetically portray the yearning for a better life among immigrants. In emotional terms he described the deaths suffered by those attempting to cross "the trackless deserts of Arizona, people who broke our laws, not to harm us, but to possess for themselves the ideals and opportunities cherished here...
Heroes come with chariots. James Bond had his Aston Martin, Batman had the Batmobile. Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry rides in a rattletrap 1994 Mitsubishi Pajero with ailing suspension, an inoperable sunroof and no windshield wipers. Shy, slightly cross-eyed and at times awkward, Pakistan's Supreme Court Chief justice is as unlikely a hero as his ride. But he is at the center of an escalating crisis that threatens to destabilize Pakistan's military dictatorship. On Saturday, the Chief Justice, who was suspended by President-General Pervez Musharraf nearly three months ago for alleged misconduct, left his home in Islamabad...