Word: holidaying
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Some professors who were accustomed to Harvard’s old schedule, with exams occurring after the holiday season, are being forced to adapt their syllabi to a shorter semester. In an e-mail, Literature professor Leo Damrosch wrote that he has tried this year to extend due dates for term papers past the end of a “painfully compressed” reading period...
...says you have to wait until Valentine’s Day for love? While the winter festivities tend to spread merriness all around, it might be a bit more difficult to get into the holiday spirit if you’re single. So if you’re itching to shake off the winter blues, cozy up to my picks for the best places to find your hipster soul mate. Looks like finding love at Harvard doesn’t have to be a Christmas miracle after...
...Bill Saporito's the Moment [Nov. 30]: It's ridiculous to encourage Americans to spend themselves into further trouble this holiday season. It used to be "American" to spend more than you had. Retailers have had their way for years. Now that Americans are more frugal, stores weep about their lost 30% markups. Does anyone really care about that now? Most people are trying to hold on to their homes, their savings, their retirements. There is nothing wrong with a little Pilgrim virtue when it comes to saving more and spending less...
Several dozen Harvard employees and students rallied outside the Holyoke Center last night, protesting the budget cuts that may dim the holiday season for some University staff...
...Meanwhile, as the President gathers lawmakers, chief executives and union heads on Thursday at the White House for a jobs summit, business groups are pushing for an array of tax cuts. The National Federation of Independent Business would like to see a payroll tax holiday. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is asking for a reduction of the capital-gains tax, renewal of popular research and development and other soon-to-expire business tax breaks and a permanent elimination of the estate tax, among a long wish list of tax provisions. The AFL-CIO, the nation's largest umbrella union, would...