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...back to Cambridge to rehash a semester’s worth of course material, anxious about our papers and exams and angry about our short winter break. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In the spring of 2004, a University-wide Committee on Calendar Reform chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53 voted 18-1 in favor of calendar reform. While then we criticized the proposal on this page, one too many January chills have changed our minds, and, we hope, will change Harvard’s mind as well...
Support for the Medical School’s new curriculum and cross-disciplinary opportunities were listed by Medical School representatives. Representatives from the School of Public Health called for a common calendar and cross-registration reform...
...After being sworn in on crutches for his second and final term as California governor today, Schwarzenegger is scheduled to outline a legislative agenda that includes corrections reform and new prison construction, additional spending on infrastructure projects, tougher environmental regulation, and a universal healthcare insurance proposal that includes coverage for children of undocumented workers. And judging from the early reactions, the stiffest resistance to many of those proposals likely will come from members of his own party...
...wage, providing low-cost prescription drugs to uninsured indigents and putting strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions. It showed voters that the Republican Governor could play well with Democrats. And after a stumbling 2005 in which he alienated voters on all sides of the aisle with his misguided government reform agenda, he subsequently sailed to re-election last November...
...McConnell certainly has his own challenges ahead. The intelligence reform Negroponte was hired to implement is in the dangerous state of being both well under way and nowhere near finished. Negroponte came in with a mandate to ensure that the 16 intelligence agencies, which together approach 100,000 employees, share any information that might stop a terrorist attack and better handle intelligence such as that used to promote the Iraq war. Though details are secret, there seems to have been progress in this area. Congressional and intelligence officials say there also appear to have been improvements in intelligence analysis...