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Frustrated students attempting to find course syllabi and lecture videos online may have brighter days on the horizon. A new measure from the Presidential Technology Initiative aims to give professors the tools they need to improve the often inadequate course websites. The support will come in the form of grants between $2,000 and $10,000 to professors, as well as stipends for undergraduates and teaching fellows who help Faculty develop and implement technological tools. While it remains to be seen how effective or worthwhile this new spending will be, it is nonetheless encouraging that Harvard has recognized the problem...
There’s a nourishing freedom in all of this, a feeling that can only come with no school on the immediate horizon. It’s an autonomy that doesn’t simply make a 95-degree New York summer tolerable, but something to be relished. It brings us troops of little kids tirelessly running through sprinklers and playing stickball and basketball, and it also gives us the non-alcohol-related courage to challenge—and thoroughly demolish—such kids in any sport we allow them to select...
...approached his table to join him. Each night Sharon takes a helicopter from his office in Jerusalem to his Negev home, Sycamore Ranch. When he's there, he likes to reminisce about his late wife Lili, whose grave lies on a hilltop under a tree starkly visible against the horizon from the kitchen window. Yet even the secluded ranch can be a reminder of his political troubles. He lives on the farm with Gilad, who is also embroiled in other corruption allegations, some of which concern mortgages and loans tied to the farm...
Mansfield said that while the Princeton move was heartening for foes of grade inflation, reform at Harvard is not necessarily on the horizon...
...hooves thunder on the horizon, HBO's Deadwood (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.; debuts March 21) might seem like the cavalry coming to rescue viewers affronted by Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash. Something innocent! Something wholesome! A nice western...