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...officials said at a meeting with administrators in February that following Harvard’s deadline for acceptance of the package, the University would reassess budgets before beginning any discussions about layoffs with the Office of the General Counsel and human resources officials...
...Report on Harvard House Renewal released last week promises to give students everything from 24-hour dining halls to more soundproof bedrooms. The House Program Planning Committee has gone to lengths to address a broad array of problems, involving both the structure of the Houses themselves and the general organization of House life. The major initiatives laid out in the report seem positive and, if renewal proceeds along these lines, prospective students can look forward to joining better-equipped, more cohesive Houses...
...general rule, I do not like Twitter. I have never been a fan of virtual persona platforms such as Twitter, LiveJournal, blogs, and even esoteric Gchat statuses. Call me old-fashioned, but I cannot understand why anyone would care to know ordinary details of a person’s life as captured in 140-character messages on Twitter. Of course, to every rule there is an exception. Mine is Shaquille O’Neal, or “THE_REAL_SHAQ” as he is known on Twitter. My obsession with Shaq’s Twitter started slowly...
...study funded by the National Institute of Health, which has been following over 51,000 male health professionals since 1986. In a similar study, Jimenez also found a strong correlation between obesity and increasing risk of periodontal disease in the elderly population. Jimenez presented her findings at the 87th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research held in the Miami Beach Convention Center. —Staff writer Helen X. Yang can be reached at hxyang@fas.harvard.edu
...stopped for lunch in a fishing village where Thomas had once stayed a night after being stranded at sea. He made friends with the villagers and now returns often to introduce his tour groups. In general, as tourists, we try not to gawk at the poverty around us, but this was impossible at such close range. About 15 people lined up on the "dock" (really, a front porch) and helped us clamber from our boat over theirs and into their one-room home. There wasn't much dialogue between the groups, given that none of the tourists spoke Khmer...