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...Curricular Review appears to finally be making progress, albeit slowly. Although recommendations in the April 2004 Report on the Harvard College Curricular Review proposed calendar reform, only now is the proposal coming to fruition. In the past, we have criticized the anticipated calendar change and its complimentary January term (J-term). But given that we do have a J-term, the administration should make the options for J-term as inclusive as possible. In the J-term we envision, Harvard would offer multiple options for students in January, beyond just an extended vacation for the entire period. For example...
...years ago, Tuesday, that President Clinton rolled out the policy that came to be known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," which relaxed the long-standing bar against gay men and women serving in the U.S. military. While the move was initially hailed as progress for the rights of gays in the military, today many see it as a liability...
...Critics will say that the E.U. mission is still modest in numbers and scope compared to U.S.-led operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even the U.N.-AU effort in Darfur. But for the E.U., progress comes in little steps: the mission to Chad and the CAR will be a key test of military resolve in difficult conditions, and a possible precursor to more efforts sending E.U. soldiers to foreign fields. "This is quite unlike anything the E.U. has been involved in ever before," CER's Valasek said. Although he felt Chad was less of a clear E.U. foreign policy...
...improved during the 1970s, my coach, Alexander Nikitin, made charts to track my progress and to set goals for me. A rating above 2500 was grand master; 2600 meant membership in the Top 10; 2700 was world-champion territory. And even above that was Bobby Fischer, at the very top with 2785. I became world champion in 1985, but true to Nikitin's vision, I had an even loftier goal; it took me four full years to surpass Fischer's rating record...
...ready to fight to the death in every game. No one was willing to work around the clock to push chess to a new level. But Fischer was, and he became the detonator of an avalanche of new chess ideas, a revolutionary whose revolution is still in progress...