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With the recently announced resignations of University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, it appears that the Harvard College Curricular Reivew might be in jeopardy. In the past few weeks, there have been calls for delay and even abandonment of the review’s recommendations, as if the curricular reports are the mandate of the central administration and derive no support outside of it.As the student member of the Educational Policy Committee (EPC), the group responsible for the recent set of proposed changes to the structure of concentrations, I would be very disheartened...
...Don’t Delay the Curricular Review, but Do Delay Concentration Choice by Emily Riehl...
...veritable gamut of emotions and emerge purified. In a matter of minutes, I witnessed both the joys of victory and the agony of defeat. On two ends of the sportsmanship spectrum, I saw a Princeton skater throw a hissy fit near the bench after he was whistled for a delay of game violation and I saw Stehle nobly help a fallen defender to his feet as the horn sounded on another heart-wrenching loss for the senior. I was crushed. And then I was redeemed. Because, if you watch enough sports, you always are. It just usually takes more than...
...Given that, the best the Administration can hope for here is delay, and some artful revisions to the deal that give everyone enough cover to crawl back down out of their trees. Dubai's lobbyists are fingering amendments to the deal calling for additional proposals for greater background checks of managers and workers, as well as beefed-up security at the terminals if the deal is allowed to go through. That might be one way to salvage this operation. But it may already be too late for that band-aid, no matter how reasonable...
...falling is something I'll never be able to get out of my mind," Cheney said. "I fired, and there's Harry falling. And it was, I'd have to say, one of the worst days of my life, at that moment." But when it came to explaining his delay in getting the story out (see page 32) and his reluctance to speak, the V.P. expressed no regret, which was entirely in character. In any event, it might not have been necessary. White House aides had come to believe that the aggressive way reporters were pursuing the story was working...