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...administration can, in fact, do something about the Core right now, in the interim, as students remain stuck in a system that everyone knows is broken. We urge Deans Gross and Knowles to continue working around the unacceptably slow Core Committee, adding departmental courses to the Core as fast as possible for those students who won’t be able to reap the benefits of the new general education framework. While focusing on the needs of future students, the College is letting current students languish. Deans Gross and Knowles must reaffirm their focus on the here...
...approach. Following a Sept. 15 warning from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, HUDS pulled pre-bagged greens from the menu. Still, odds are nobody’s going to end up puking in Stillman at least for anything but the usual punch + vodka + TLR misadventures.Why so fast, HUDS? Harvard has already had several epidemics strike campus: In 1948, an unidentified virus sickened more than 1,000 undergrads and was eventually traced to the Kirkland House kitchen. Most recently, in 1994, a 24-hour stomach virus struck nearly 200 freshmen, forcing the College to send students to outside hospitals...
...Fast forward two years. The economist, instead of being lambasted in the wake of a criminal investigation, received the glowing support of his colleagues. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, an award given to the most promising American economist under the age of 40. Previous winners included Paul R. Krugman, Harvard Professor Martin S. Feldstein ’61, Milton Friedman, and not surprisingly, Summers...
...traditional riad villas that sold for j90,000 per hectare six years ago are now priced at €700,000. Per hectare prices in less effervescent areas have risen from €80,000 to €500,000 during the same period. "The only place that isn't rising as fast is the medina (old city), where many people who bought recently have been disappointed," she says. "Now they're selling - and joining the crowd looking to buy elsewhere in Marrakech or Morocco...
Palestinian Muslims are currently joining the faithful the world over in denying themselves food between sunrise and sundown. But while most Muslims elsewhere break their Ramadan fast with sumptuous iftar meals, those unfortunate enough to live in the West Bank and Gaza are finding that they have less and less to put on the table come nightfall. That's because they remain under a financial siege imposed by Israel, the U.S. and Europe, in the hope of forcing Hamas, the Palestinian ruling party, to recognize Israel. The premise of the siege strategy appears to be that by increasing Palestinian misery...