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...very closely,” he said. Summers—whose tenure is set to be the shortest of any Harvard president since the Civil War—said he is most proud of his efforts to revamp undergraduate education, boost science and interdisciplinary initiatives, and expand financial aid to more students. But he was reluctant to predict his legacy as Harvard’s 27th president. “I think it’s for others to judge,” he said. —Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu...
...Teaching graduate students has been an area that has allowed me to expand as a teacher, and I see this as continuous with that process,” she said of her new post...
...particularly wealthy would have an advantage in throwing parties (and also in obtaining the rooms in the first place, since they could make their wealth a focal point of their “campaign” for a suite). To make the process fair, the Undergraduate Council (UC) must expand its already successful party fund to ensure that all party suites, regardless of the personal wealth of their residents, can execute out their bacchanalian duties. Furthermore, the UC should prioritize funding for “democratically elected” party suites over lotteried rooms. (We expect that the party fund...
...owners of Z Square Cambridge], who wanted a wonderful location and liquor license, the deal worked out best for everybody,” Trust said. The new Finagle A Bagel location is considerably smaller than the JFK space. Seating will be limited and the menu will be expanded to feature more items that people can purchase on the run. While Finagle currently closes at 9 p.m., it will now expand its hours to be open until 11 p.m. nightly. —Staff writer Carolyn A. Sheehan can be reached at csheehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...national level, No Child Left Behind--the metric-heavy school reform that President Bush would like to expand in public high schools--was designed to make schools accountable for their dropout rates. But it hasn't been carried out very seriously. The Education Trust, an advocacy group for low-income and minority students, issued a scathing report in 2005 about how the Federal Government stood by while states handed in patently misleading graduation numbers: last year three states didn't submit any, and for many states, the figures were clearly inflated...