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...fixer, the guy who cleans up the messes - hit-and-run driving cases, ugly divorces, immigration muddles - in which the firm's otherwise respectable clients find themselves embroiled. The partners are grateful for his services, and don't care to know too much about his methods. Or his extra-curricular activities, which include a gambling habit and an $80,000 debt to the mob, who lent him money for a bar that his feckless brother ran into the ground...
...hard transition, then you owe it to every student to say that they get credit for every Core that they took,” Harris said.At its second meeting yesterday, the committee used anonymous course transcripts to examine the effects of an abrupt curricular switch. After the exercise, “there were several people who began to doubt the wisdom and feasibility of a hard transition,” according to Assistant Dean of the College Stephanie H. Kenen.In a “soft” transition, Gen Ed and the Core would co-exist for an adjustment period...
...helm assembling an impressive legacy. Beyond the physical monuments to his tenacity—the Cambridge Queen’s Head pub, the Lamont Library Café, the Student Organizations Center at Hilles, and the New College Theater—Gross presided over the most productive half-decade of curricular change in recent years...
...Many fault Gross’ occasionally lackluster leadership for the sluggishness of the Harvard College Curricular Review and for the underwhelming new General Education curriculum that it produced. But his tenure nevertheless produced a stunning renaissance in undergraduate advising, including the first comprehensive, fully-funded peer advising program in the College’s history. The Classes of 2010 and 2011 have Gross to thank for the delay in concentration choice and for the College’s formal recognition of secondary fields...
...Reva P. Minkoff ’08, a Crimson editorial editor and former Crimson staff director, is a government concentrator in Pforzheimer House. She served on the January Term Curricular Review Committee and has managed the Cambridge Queen’s Head...