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...topics include a proposal to visit the New England Aquarium, and to view The Princess Bride in Currier House “in hi-def and surround sound glory,” according to Majadla’s post. The List also serves as a platform for less event-oriented communication (one entrepreneurial individual succeeded in selling a set of LSAT books). Learn more after the jump...
...Forst's resignation, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith announced that FAS' then-primary finance guru, Brett C. Sweet, would be leaving Harvard in late July to head over to Vanderbilt University. Sweet, the FAS dean of administration and finance, and Forst both left after less than a year on their respective jobs. Since Forst and Sweet's departures, the positions have been filled by Katherine N. Lapp and Leslie A. Kirwan '79, respectively...
This fall, three House master couples announced their departure in the span of less than two weeks—add that to the two House masters who stepped down at the end of the previous school year, and 2009 means new management for five of the 12 undergraduate Houses...
...satisfying school year without an appearance made by our governing body? It all began on the night of Nov. 19, when the UC Election Commission decided to "de-certify" the results of the presidential election released that night, leaving the student body in confusion and the decision pending. Less than an hour later, a message signed off by then-UC Vice President Kia McLeod '10 was sent from the official UC presidential e-mail address, stating that then-vice presidential candidate Eric N. Hysen '11 may have had access to the software that tracks the results of the UC elections...
...weak pro-U.S. Yemeni government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Washington wants to continue its cooperative relationship with Saleh, and is encouraging his government to take the lead in rooting out al-Qaeda within Yemen's borders. The U.S. is helping, boosting counter-terrorism funding for Yemen from less than $5 million in 2006 to $67 million in 2009, and dispatching CIA and military personnel to train Yemeni forces. But the al-Qaeda problem has been a lesser security priority for Yemen than two unrelated separatist insurgencies in the north and south of the country. (See pictures of conflict...