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With a new general education scheme in sight, but a lame duck Core Curriculum still looming over the College, Harvard students find themselves in a rather awkward position. We know the Core’s days are numbered, but the changes are happening too slowly—and too unpredictably—to realistically plan for life under general education. So, alas, we must resign ourselves to being the last generation of students to live by the rules of the Core—but we shouldn’t have to. For many years now, students have been able...
...tours differ significantly from all others—listing their scope and off-beat, performance-like qualities as reasons why. Jones told podcast “Boston Behind The Scenes” in August that “unlike the other tours that are often times dry and extremely lame, to be honest...our tours tend to be much more funny.” Where Unofficial Tours will be objectively distinct, is in their comp and business structure. Aside from accruing up to $2,000 a week in tour tips, Unoffical Tours brings in ad revenue by distributing a coupon...
...wind their way through several layers of checks and input from various offices in the Roman Curia - and particularly in the latter years of the previous papacy, bureaucrats actually wrote the speeches themselves. But the effective No. 2 man in the Curia bureaucracy, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, had been a lame duck over the last two months after Benedict announced his replacement as Secretary of State would begin this fall (Sep. 15, in fact, the day after the Pope's return from Germany). Insiders say the 78-year-old Italian hadn't had an effective working relationship with the German Pope...
...pretty billboard who serves as the token religious voice, while Peet drifts through with weird detachment, as if she were playing the princess of a small country.) And some details are spot-on: one invented sketch, "Peripheral Vision Man," is a dead ringer for the kind of lame skits that have long plagued SNL. I mean...
...peace agreement would depend. Blair, however, has had limited success in his efforts over the past five years to get the Bush Administration to apply itself to the priority of forging a peace agreement; his prospects of success will hardly have improved now that he has declared himself a lame duck...