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...University Committee on Calendar Reform recommended last month that FAS, along with Harvard’s nine other schools, adopt a uniform academic calendar that starts each year soon after Labor Day, moves Commencement to late May and ends the fall semester before winter vacation...
...Calendar Reform Committee has no ability to tell FAS what they should be doing,” he says. “It’s more a matter of having the curricular review represented on the calendar committee and I think that’s certainly happening and happening well...
...order to ensure collaboration between the pedagogy working group and the calendar reform committee, Cohen was also a member of the University-wide committee and approved the recommendation to end the first semester before winter break...
...MODEL FOR THE REGION? Not very. Professor J.Q. Wilson reminds us that after the Magna Carta, it took England about 500 years before it could persuasively call itself democratic and stable.What is unmistakably accomplished is the death of a hideous regime and kindled interest in liberal reform...
...Republican strategy this year appears to be extreme hardball. Yes, there have been efforts to reach out to constituencies like suburban women (through the Bush education initiative), senior citizens (the Medicare prescription-drug bribe) and Latinos (immigration reform). But the dominant message coming from the White House is, We're right, we don't make mistakes, and anyone who disagrees better watch out. The essential Bush foreign, fiscal and social policies represent nothing less than a new political philosophy: Utopian conservatism, a messianic faith in the power of democracy to transform the Middle East and the power of tax cuts...