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...First, and most importantly: extend meal hours to accommodate students' hectic schedules. In some houses, lunch is served only from 12-2, preventing students with consecutive midday classes from eating in-house until dinner. And how many of us have finished classes and meetings only to realize that it's past 7 and dinner is over? The best solution to this problem is to stagger hours: Those houses with shared kitchens can have similar hours, but that shouldn't keep Winthrop, for example, from closing one hour after Adams for lunch, or Dunster from being open for dinner until eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Program For HDS, UC Task Force | 10/29/1997 | See Source »

...understand that the Chinese President Jiang Zemin has been invited to speak at Harvard University on Nov. 1. I am writing to request that you extend invitations to some of the prominent Chinese dissidents who live in exile in the United States to speak at the same event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter from Human Rights in China to President Rudenstine | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...hopes of furthering this proposal, I am suggesting that you extend invitations to the following persons: Wang Juntao, Tong Yi and Liu Gang, who have all spent years in Chinese prisons for merely expressing their political opinions in China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter from Human Rights in China to President Rudenstine | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...need to be able to sustain [professors'] projects over time, to build long-term relationships with people and nations abroad and to place ourselves more directly in touch with the societies that we study," he said. "In other words, we need to extend our wings--tentatively, carefully, but with some sense of real excitement...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rudenstine Calls on Alums To Make Harvard 'Forever' | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...studies undertaken over the decades. She found that beginning readers who were systematically taught phonics performed better than those who were not. She made it clear, though, that phonics instruction should not consist of mindless drills, should not be done to the exclusion of reading stories and should not extend beyond the first half of first grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW JOHNNY SHOULD READ | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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