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...administration’s new role in campus life comes as the result of a complete overhaul in the Office of Student Activities (OSA) after the dramatic restructuring of the College under Gross’ leadership...
...overhaul of Harvard’s Core Curriculum is one of the most important projects facing administrators, the Faculty, and students today. Thus far, the Committee on General Education has made some encouraging decisions for the future of Harvard undergraduate education. The committee’s preliminary assessments indicate an advocacy of distribution requirements over three general subject areas, as well as two mandatory Harvard College Courses that will be “broad in scope and ambition.” But while distribution requirements will allow for more student freedom in class choice, the committee’s failure...
...Quadrangle Recreational and Athletic Center (QRAC) will close at 5 p.m. tomorrow in order to begin approximately five months of renovations which will overhaul the space—and replace one of its basketball courts with a dance studio and performance space...
...restrictions such as house arrest, after Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed to give Parliament the right to review it within a year. The 10 suspects were released from three years' detention shortly before the bill's adoption. Selective Strike FRANCE Some 150,000 demonstrators protesting economic reforms, including the overhaul of the 35-hour week, brought Paris to a standstill. But a visit by an International Olympic Committee contingent assessing Paris' bid for the 2012 Summer Games went ahead unhindered, as protesters avoided the areas the delegation was touring. Court Battle PAKISTAN The Federal Shari'a Court in Islamabad...
...good clinical medicine. In the past quarter-century, the development economics imposed by rich countries on the poorest countries has been too much like medicine in the 18th century, when doctors used leeches to draw blood from their patients, often killing them in the process. Development economics needs an overhaul in order to be much more like modern medicine, a profession of rigor, insight and practicality. The sources of poverty are multidimensional. So are the solutions. In my view, clean water, productive soils and a functioning health-care system are just as relevant to development as foreign exchange rates...