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...ability to deliver may depend on the extent to which donor countries deliver on their aid pledges - the previous interim government only received $850 million of the $1.4 billion it was pledged by the international community. Préval is counting on agricultural development and tourism to jumpstart the economy, but knows that Haiti has grown increasingly dependent on foreign aid to keep the economy afloat...
...Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty and Arts and Sciences, it is more than clear that the proposed requirements—a broad system of general distribution requirements, rather than the current Core—will not be in place for the next school year. In the interim, the Core Standing Committee (CSC), which is the group of faculty members that determines which courses garner the label “Core,” should expand the range of departmental courses that count for Core credit—and it appears as though it is poised...
...addition to Waters, who was elected last spring, over 100 Harvard faculty have been elected to the society, including incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok and former University President Neil L. Rudenstine...
Derek C. Bok’s ascension to Harvard’s top post could revive the debate over a College honor code. The incoming interim president has praised such codes in two of his own books.In his 1990 book “Universities and the Future of America,” Bok wrote, “Perhaps the greatest benefit of honor systems is the stimulus they give students to think about their own moral responsibility and to discuss the subject among themselves. This is such an important advantage that one wonders why more colleges have not adopted...
...champagne, a who’s who of Harvard filled the Faculty Room in University Hall yesterday for the unveiling of the official portrait of former University President Neil L. Rudenstine.Appearing amid the pomp and pageantry were some of Harvard’s most low-profile leaders, including incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok and three members of the secretive Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing body.Before the portrait was revealed, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, reading from a single pink Post-It note, delivered one punch line after another as he toasted Rudenstine...