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Though the committee may create indoor social space in the future, Mostafavi said that it will use feedback from the two-month experiment in the fall in making further recommendations...
Barnes served as the second president of the Iran Center for Management Studies (ICMS)—a Harvard-affiliated business school in Tehran, where HBS professors and Iranian Harvard graduates taught both Iranian and foreign businessmen in an 11-month program—from 1975 to 1977. He also taught there, charming both the students and professors—listening so intently that he made it seem “as though you were the only person in the world that mattered at the time,” said Kasra Ferdows, a Georgetown Business School professor who taught...
...effort to create a coordinated university-wide calendar, Interim President Derek C. Bok in 2007 approved a new month-long break between semesters at the College, known colloquially as J-Term and officially as Winter Break. This January marks the first time in recent history that, from Jan. 4 through Jan. 22, students will no longer be hunkering down in library carrels preparing for final exams. Instead, undergraduates will be pursuing self-directed activities on campus or will be required to vacate the premises. Unfortunately, that choice, which should rest with students, instead depends largely on the whims...
...King's, Rigali issued a statement "applauding" the Senator for introducing legislation to promote policies that encourage women facing unplanned pregnancies to carry their babies to term. In the highly ritualized world of church communication, the Cardinal's announcement was akin to a public smackdown of Martino. One month later, Martino was summoned to Rome, and submitted his resignation...
Aerial firefighting is also risky, as it often requires flying at low altitude through poor visibility. Nine people died in a helicopter crash during the Buckhorn fire in northern California last year, and last month a pilot died in the crash of a single-engine tanker near Reno, Nevada. (The Station fire has so far claimed the lives of two ground-based firefighters after their fire truck fell down a hillside.) Yet, as we're again reminded this year, tanker flights are favorite action shot of television news shows - California fire officials have dubbed them "CNN drops" - and that makes...