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...There is little precedent for Harvard athletes who willingly jettisoned their degrees for the pros, as tennis star James Blake did in 1999. Recent baseball players Zak Farkes, Frank Herrmann, and John Wolff, all of the Class of ’06, signed minor-league contracts and left a semester short of graduation, but all three were on pace to earn their degrees in January...
...last Thursday, Harvard seniors could add a minor to their transcript with just a few clicks and a trip to the Registrar’s Office. But kinks remain in the secondary field program, creating bureaucratic hurdles for many undergraduates who want to take advantage of the initiative...
...drawn. Why? New diagnostic tests often give us more information than we can actually use or even interpret. If you do enough MRIs or blood tests, for example, you're bound to find something that's off - and that means getting still more tests. New treatments directed against minor problems, or yielding minor improvements, can be major new expenses. Wrist arthroscopy, a high-tech newcomer to my field, seems to treat problems for which few patients seemed to need more than a temporary splint and some aspirin 30 years...
...have been quite that overwhelmed in the actual battle. This inflexible penchant for volume was a distraction in all three program selections.Ultimately, these worries were redeemed by the arrival of Bartosik, who found new life in Edvard Grieg’s popular “Piano Concerto in A minor.” Bartosik’s delicate touch on the piano could only be described as poetry in motion. At times, Bartosik’s sublime piano solos were sullied by out-of-tune woodwind entrances, deafening trumpets, or murky French horn lines, but otherwise the Grieg...
Agreements in the Middle East, whether they appear minor or are hailed as breakthroughs, inevitably enter a "prove it" phase, a time when parties must deliver on obligations, uphold promises, and work through thorny questions. That time is now for the Feb. 8 Mecca Agreement that dramatically announced a Palestinian unity government. In Jordan Wednesday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he believed Fatah and its rival organization Hamas could deliver. Some important positions in the new government are basically decided; Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh will remain Prime Minister, for instance. But, Abbas conceded, "there is a lot of work...