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...worry about a foreshortened reading period. Buell served as Dean from 1992 to 1996, during which time reading period policies came under scrutiny. During such discussions, Buell sided with the minority—those who felt reading period should be re-examined. “I guess if we were really going to do messing with the calendar…I’d like to see more class days and an abbreviated reading period and exam days,” he says. But Gomes calls reading period “an absolutely essential piece of our calendar...
...Recently, city offices have also begun to close earlier on Friday afternoons. But despite his public reprimand of Podgers, Reeves echoed the concerns of residents, saying that he did not understand the abruptness of the decision. “This was not intended to be a bad thing I guess, but the perception is that we’re taking away a meal from seniors,” Reeves said. “This is a problem with how this came about.” Reeves pressed City Manager Robert W. Healy to give the council more notice when making...
...saying that it is plausible, or even logical, for us to stop complaining. But at the risk of sounding like Little Miss Sunshine, it’s worth remembering why Harvard is special before you only have three weeks left. Despite Harvard’s problems, I would guess that most of us wouldn’t be happier anywhere else. Our culture of complaint pushes the change that needs to be made, but c’mon, we have it pretty good.Margaret M. Rossman ’06 is an English concentrator in Mather House. Her column appears regularly...
...players on this stocker-team juggernaut? Nintendo, whose soccer games sell well as "youngsters get excited" by the Cup; Holcim, a Swiss building-materials company, because the Cup "always involves major infrastructure" additions; Heineken, the Dutch brewer, and Scottish & New Castle, a British pub operator (try to guess why); Canon, the Japanese imaging company, because "worldwide media attention" means fans will want to record the event; Fuji Photo, a Japanese film company (see Canon); Coca-Cola, one of the main sponsors; Tesco, a British takeaway-food retailer; InterContinental Hotels; Puma, the German sports-shoe company, because of "higher-than-average...
...current season, which ended Wednesday, is The Drowsy Chaperone, in which a friendly hermit known only as Man in Chair (co-author Bob Martin) slips a 33-1/3 rpm record out of its sleeve and tells us we are about to hear A 1928 musical called guess what. In a trice, the gent's apartment is converted into a Broadway stage and the musical is performed, with Man in Chair's frequent interpolations on the biographies of the stars. It's all faux, you know, and as directed by Casey Nicolaw (who choreographed Spamalot) the evening has an airy...