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...Given the rare opportunity to compete during the week, the Harvard sailing team sent a young contingent to sail in the waters of the Charles River at the MIT-hosted Midweek Tech Invitational #1 yesterday afternoon...
Under the current system, students have the opportunity to choose the professors who could best speak on their behalf—a luxury no longer afforded, given the changes. Whereas many colleges base PBK elections solely on grades, the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter prides itself on looking more holistically at students. Indeed, the current election system allows professors who know students well to make informed, nuanced recommendations. However, the new rules give this power to the directors of studies, who may not know each candidate well enough to have a firm basis for judgment...
This delegation of power impairs the credibility and legitimacy of the final decisions, given the vastly different sizes of departments. The director of studies of a smaller concentration is more likely to be able to provide helpful and personal insight on a candidate’s qualifications than a director of a larger department who has more students to get to know. Students of large departments will therefore be unfairly disadvantaged if their director of studies is unable to provide as glowing a recommendation as a professor who has worked closely with the student would have been able to offer...
...chemistry shines in the chaotic and funny story of a married suburban couple in “Date Night.” The two combine slapstick and sarcasm in a winning combination, and turn this far-fetched story of wrong-place-wrong-time into something hilarious and original. However, given the focus on comedy and adventure, the typical formula for romance feels somewhat unnatural...
...South Florida and is sponsoring anti-pill-mill legislation, acknowledged that money is an unsolved matter. "There are grants to get it going. Then we have to figure out a recurring funding mechanism," he says. Action must be taken, he says, because anyone can end up ensnared by addiction, given how easy it is to get pills. "I get all these stories - people telling me about their brother dying, their sister dying," he says. "These are heads of families who end up in a terrible situation because of a workplace injury." But it's like walking a tightrope, he adds...