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...English department chair James Engell presented a motion to the Council to bring the Expository Writing program under the auspices of the Standing Committee on Writing and Speaking, which he chairs, and to require review by the Faculty within five years...
...Government 1061, “The History of Modern Political Philosophy;” and Philosophy 178, “Equality and Democracy,” will now satisfy the Moral Reasoning requirement. Planned departmental courses Physical Sciences 1a and Physical Sciences 1b, “Motion, Size and Life,” will count for Science A credit. Government 1780, “Introduction to Political Economy,” will join the two current departmental alternates for Social Analysis, Economics 1010a and 1010b. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...sees the controller from the auteur's perspective, as an opportunity but also a huge challenge. "Our engineers now have to decipher what the user is doing," he says. "'Is that a throw gesture? Is it a juke? A stiff arm?' Everyone knows how to make a throwing motion, but we all have our own unique way of throwing." But consider the upside: you're basically playing football in your living room. "To snap the ball, you 'snap' the remote back toward your body, which hikes the ball," Schappert says. "No buttons to press, just gesture a hiking motion...
...Friday, Cambridge District Court Judge George Sprague granted the defense's motion to issue a continuation without a finding for one year. That allows the case to end in a dismissal, contingent upon a year of good behavior, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s spokeswoman, Melissa Sherman. The four students were also ordered to pay $150 in court costs and $50 in victim witness fees, Sherman wrote in an e-mail...
Kirby acknowledged the “approaching conditions of financial constraint” caused by the Faculty’s expansion, partly set into motion under his watch. But he wrote that a plan of increased fundraising, creative money management, and a boost in revenue from the Faculty’s endowment will cover a deficit that could amount to $68.4 million...