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Furthermore, while the new policy allowing Core exemptions is much needed, it contains some inconsistencies. Under the current plan, Core exemptions are capped so that students can be exempt from no more than two requirements on the basis of their study abroad. However, students studying abroad can apply for an exemption from the Foreign Cultures requirement in addition to exempting one Core requirement per semester overseas. This policy has the contradictory result that a student spending one semester away from Harvard can exempt Foreign Cultures and another core, but should they choose to spend two semesters overseas, they will still...
...private, tax-exempt, nonprofit organization, Harvard is required each year to make public its federal tax return, which includes compensation information, functional expenses and other such data...
Students will be exempt from one Core requirement for each semester spent studying abroad, under a new policy approved last week by the Faculty’s Standing Committee on the Core Program...
Under the new policy, as outlined in an e-mail sent to all undergraduates going abroad next fall, students will be exempt from one Core requirement for each full term—or four courses—of Harvard credit they earn, with a maximum of two exemptions allowed...
...pressure. Before 9/11, the U.S. pursued a selective policy toward terrorism. Allies sponsoring or harboring extremists were tolerated as long as U.S. interests and lives were not hurt. But today the U.S. war on terror has turned global, and no one, not even a linchpin in that war, is exempt. The message inherent in the post-9/11 invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq is not lost on Islamabad: the U.S. is ready and willing to target its enemies on their home turf. The legitimacy of national boundaries does not provide the comfort of a safe haven...