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...Harvard is bigger than Dartmouth, and we have more professional schools to which we kowtow and more red tape to wade through. Still, a policy through which students provide their own access is more or less free (perhaps modulo the cost of hiring an additional couple user assistants to offset the time spent dealing with whatever small number of problems arise when people set up their equipment in the Fall) and carries with it the possibility to markedly improve the quality of student life in residence. I’m not asking the administration to improve Harvard for us?...
...department would reveal. Of course, NELC is not entirely inadequate. There are currently more than a hundred students in NELC, with 19 undergraduate concentrators (including myself). However, the advantages I enjoy—small concentration size and flexibility in choosing classes—are more and more offset by the antiquated doctrine on which the department is based. Reexamining the department will allow for a better and more valuable academic experience for those interested in the Middle East and its many civilizations and cultures...
...April they, too, were hoarding sugar and rice. Is the panic justified? Yes and no. Prices for everything from cement to dry cleaning to bananas will go up as vat rates rise and other duties take effect in line with E.U. rules. But rising prices will be partly offset by cheaper imports of potatoes, French wine, Spanish olives and Italian pasta. "There is no need to panic," says Markéta Sichtarová, chief economist at Volksbank in Prague. "We expect the overall impact on prices to be no greater than 1%." And reports of hoarding can be exaggerated, says...
...Harvard advanced Greek examination (2 points), the following board examination in Greek--(c) Iliad, books I--III; (h) sight translation of Homer. (Candidates are advised to present also (f) prose composition, since a fair success in it will offset deficiencies in the other parts of the examination in advanced Greek...
...fact, in this era of globalization, extreme fiscal austerity is particularly harmful. Harvard economist Dani Rodrik has shown that the most open economies tend to have sizable public sectors, because government consumption can be used to offset the income volatility that free trade typically generates. The Big Government Bogie, in other words, may actually make free trade politically and economically sustainable. “Scaling governments down without paying attention to the economic insecurities generated by globalization,” Rodrik cautions, “may actually harm the prospects of maintaining global free trade...