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...swath of land is due for a major overhaul and integration into the larger Harvard campus. Though you won’t be here to see it, plans tentatively include building eight new undergraduate houses on that side of town (and moving undergrads out of the Quad), transferring the locus of undergraduate life from the Yard to the Charles. Much has been made of the administration’s tight lips when it comes to discussing Allston plans...
...isn’t the exclusivity or the old-boy culture that makes these clubs the lone locus of organized social life. It’s their mansions...
...another rarity for comix characters) and are all facing the issues of that life stage. Craig moved away before 9/11 to become a professor and raise a family. Though he harbors a secret mid-life crisis, Craig seems the most grounded of the crew. He becomes the story's locus as he reacquaints himself with his friends. Mac, a successful painter and permanent bachelor, left the city after the disaster. Deeply shaken by the experience, but loathe to admit it, he puts up a vain and pompous front - "Don't touch my hair" he screams - that only his chums...
...insurgency remains confined largely to the Sunni triangle stretching north from Baghdad - but its theater of operations includes the capital, home to almost one quarter of Iraq's population and its locus of power. And it plainly enjoys, if not the support then at least the consent of a sizable portion of the Sunni population. Although there have been attacks on coalition forces in Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad and some of the southern cities, even the most radical element of the Shiite population has refrained from urging violence against the U.S., waiting out the political process, which...
...course requirements—in a sense the most straightforward aspect of a curricular review—the committees for pedagogy and academic experience must examine issues that will require more fundamental changes to the Harvard culture. Advising is particularly problematic. The solution will not simply involve changing the locus of the adviser (from the House to the concentration, for instance), and certainly nothing will improve if a greater number of adviser meetings are mandated with the current crop of often unmotivated, unknowledgeable and uninspiring graduate students. A concerted effort must be made to encourage the entire Harvard Faculty...