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According to the Handbook for Students, in order to be readmitted after being required to withdraw, “the student ordinarily must have been away from the College for at least one but ordinarily two or more full terms and must have shown an acceptable record of performance during a substantial period (at least six consecutive months) of regular employment.” Dismissal is significantly more serious; it “does not necessarily preclude a student’s return, but readmission is granted rarely and only by vote of the Faculty.” Expulsion...
...admissions materials to the extent of saying that they are someone they are not. Therefore, that false person was expelled because they never really existed. Dismissal is just as extreme an action in terms of severing someone’s ties with Harvard, and though the text in the handbook makes it seem like a dismissed student could possibly return, that really wouldn’t happen in all likelihood...
...approximately 600-page manuscript recently smuggled out of Afghanistan, the book details al-Zawahiri's reasons for devoting his life to the militant struggle, the significance of jihad and the justification and logic behind the killing of civilians. In short, says Jacquard, the manuscript is an al-Qaeda handbook. "What's really significant about this is the timing," Jacquard notes. "Bombs are falling on Afghanistan, U.S. special troops are apparently now on the ground, and things have got to be really heating up for al-Qaeda, its leaders and its training camps. And yet, amid all that turmoil and chaos...
...admissions standards for both male and female applicants. Today, Harvard women are able to enroll into a field of concentration created to focus on the theory and history of their position in culture and society. The creation of the women’s studies concentration was, according to the Handbook for Students, an impetus to bring together the “new scholarship on women and gender that has come to occupy an increasingly important place in a number of disciplines over the past two decades...
...much as possible about the mechanics of flight and plane safety systems as well as the causes of anxiety. Equally invaluable?however frightening?is experience. Debbie Seaman, who beat her own fear of flying at the Qantas clinic in Sydney and went on to write The Fearless Flier's Handbook, says: "Most of all, if we don't 'get back on the horse,' we're helping the fear take over. A phobia erodes self-esteem in other areas of life and spreads like a cancer." She advises phobic flyers to desensitize themselves: arrive at the airport early to watch planes...