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When the initiative--managed by independent computer consulting and software production company Nevo Technologies--is fully implemented, departments, Houses and administrative offices will make changes to course listings via Web browsers; students will gain access to their course schedules and grades on-line; and examination scheduling and calendar planning will be fully computerized...
According to David M. Sobel, manager of userservices for Harvard Arts and Sciences ComputerServices (HASCS), students in FAS will usespecially-assigned PINs to gain read-only secureaccess to their most recent grades and courseselections...
...widely predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the "Enlightened Hindu Nationalist" party, will gain the most seats of any single party, but not enough to form its own government. The conglomerate of left-leaning parties called the United Front--which headed the latest government under the ambivalent auspices of the India National Congress Party, the party that has ruled the government for all but five of the past 50 years--is expected to get about half the number of seats as the BJP, or about 20 percent. Congress will garner enough seats to control an unstable, anti-BJP coalition...
...corruption and even criminalization is a factor in voter disenchantment (according to the Election Commission, 1,500 of 13,952 candidates in the 1996 elections had criminal records, including murder, rape and kidnapping), but the overwhelming cause of voter apathy has been the inability of one single party to gain enough support to enact positive programs. The main force that allied Congress and the United Front was not common ideology or common programs, but the singular desire to keep the BJP from power. An alliance founded on hatred of a common enemy is uneasy at best, and when the alliance...
Last year alone, total endowment worth grewnearly 25 percent, a net gain of more than $2billion that far out-stripped the 7 percent rateof growth in the payout...