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...David Rockefeller International Experience Grants—which funded over 500 students in its inaugural year. Between the influx of funding and increasing overlap with OCS as students spend more time abroad, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds has been pushing for closer cooperation. The organizations will retain separate leadership and separate budgets—which won’t be reduced, according to Mount. The OCS director said they aren’t reuniting, but “there may be more of an umbrella structure coming.” In the coming weeks, they expect to submit...
...cooperation, it is more important than ever for students to become well-versed in foreign languages.” Chaput added, “Given that Harvard is a training ground for people who will become some of the top specialists in their fields, it is essential that Harvard retain diversity in language offerings. Specialists can’t be specialists if they don’t know the languages of the areas they study.” Budget constraints have also affected language study beyond the classroom. Last week, The Crimson reported that free access to the Rosetta Stone...
State administrators say the facilities want to continue justifying the need for detention to retain upstate jobs. But unions point to the case of Renee Greco, a 24-year-old supervisor in a halfway house in western New York, who was clubbed to death while playing cards with some of her charges. Her assailants, ages 17 and 18, have pleaded not guilty to charges of second- and first-degree murder, respectively...
...exceptions, attempts at depicting the interior life of a woman have been put on the backburner. Nouvelle gamine figures like “Amélie” star Audrey Tautou tap into the rich inheritance of the ’60s and ’70s but retain all the cuteness without the introspection. Those recent films that do present well-defined female characters—“Whale Rider,” “Thirteen,” “Juno”—generally center on adolescence, a morass of complexities that...
...That hard work will include further negotiations between GM and the German government. GM wants to keep some ties to Opel's engineering presence in Germany and also retain a veto over any transfer of its technology to Russia. There are also thorny issues over the details of the financing package to work out, though Merkel said today she was confident the obstacles could be overcome. GM's Smith, said he hoped the deal could be closed by November or December. If that happens, America's biggest auto company will finish 2009 in a very different state than it started...