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...Committee on Calendar Reform, one of the curricular review committees, proposed a “4-1-4” schedule to align Harvard with most other colleges: The school year would start immediately after Labor Day and final exams would be given prior to winter recess in December. Before the four months of spring semester, the Committee recommended the institution of a three-week January Term (J-Term) in which students could choose to travel, perform community service, conduct research, or even enroll in an intensive academic course. Abstractly, such an opportunity to focus intensely on one pursuit...
...this one has a very specific audience in mind: the anti-immigration right wing of the Republican Party. It is this deeply skeptical crowd Bush must win over if he is to get the last potential domestic policy achievement of his Presidency: "comprehensive immigration reform." And, with Congress' summer recess and the 2008 Presidential primaries approaching, time is running...
...observation that Barack Obama’s middle name is Hussien is juxtaposed with the joke that Mr. Obama’s college nickname was “Gassy.” A special report about the watering-down of recess activities to avoid damage to self-esteem devolves into a rant by the fake “doctor,” complaining that his patient is now impotent because he struck out in Little League. An interview with a fake terrorism expert leaves the anchors and the expert stumped about the link between different terrorist cells in London. Everyone...
Duncan Purdy, owner of the Cambridge-based salon and antique store About Hair, was scheduled to be sentenced yesterday at the Middlesex County Courthouse. But the sentencing was postponed for reasons that were not immediately clear. Speaking to The Crimson during a recess yesterday afternoon, Purdy’s attorney J. Daniel Silverman said that he had appeared in court but was told by officials that Purdy was in custody and had not been brought in. Because court statutes state that the defendant must be present for the event, the sentencing could not take place. Purdy was found guilty...
Throughout the week Senator Dole pressed for the President to call Congress back from recess for a special session to allow lawmakers to tackle the crisis immediately. The incoming Senate Majority Leader, West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, argued that such a session would be an "overreaction." Byrd prefers that Congress wait until January, when the new Democratic majority in the Senate could have a greater say in the proceedings. Although Dole did not get his way, his gambit spurred lawmakers to form two select congressional committees to deal with the investigation. He and Byrd will appoint a 13-member panel...