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...curricular review was completed this spring, the Gen Ed requirements that will replace the Core will not apply to all students until after the current freshman class graduates, Jay M. Harris, the director of the committee established to implement Gen Ed, told The Crimson last week. As a result, all currently enrolled students will have the option of graduating under the Core system, though Core classes may diminish in number over the next few years, Smith wrote in the e-mail. “It will be difficult to sustain this program in its current form over the course...
...ahead of second-place finisher George Washington Rowing Association. Another Harvard entry finished ninth in the same event with a time of 15:45.92, while the Crimson’s third entry finished 15th in 16:01.492.Despite the large margin between Harvard and its closest competitor in the end result, the race itself was characterized by close turns and narrow passes. “The race got off to a pretty tight start,” junior coxswain Tope Amos said. “We ended up passing the boat in front of us under the BU Bridge. I thought...
...refugee population on the planet. The war in Iraq is already a contentious issue (to put it lightly), and the refugee crisis adds an additional blow. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that a little over four million persons have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the Iraq war and the continuing instability there. About 2.2 million of those refugees have left home only to resettle elsewhere in Iraq, while the other half of the refugee population has left the country entirely. Iran, Egypt, Yemen, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon have absorbed the largest number...
...burden placed on the citizens of these host countries is enormous. The populations of Syria and Jordan have ballooned as a result of the influx of Iraqis, and because many refugees sneak in, there is a great deal of social friction between populations. Conflicts are likely to carry over across borders disrupting once peaceful communities...
...especially high in larger cities such as Krakow, Gdansk and the capital Warsaw (where it reached 70%) and in the huge 1.2 million strong Polish diaspora in Britain and Ireland; it was correspondingly low in rural areas of Poland, where the main strength of the PIS lies. The result was a resounding victory for the center-right Civic Platform (PO) party, which is considered friendlier both to business and to the European Union. According to preliminary results released mid-day Monday, the PO received 45% of the vote, compared to just over 30% for the PIS. PO leader Donald Tusk...