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...Undergraduate Council proposal to shorten exam period by two days will likely take effect on a trial basis next year, academics committee chair Steven n. Kalkanis '93 said yesterday...
...shorten reading period to one week. Let SONG complain all it wants. No other college reserves such a ridiculously long period of time to study for finals; infact, most colleges don't have more than two or three days between classes and exams...
...Shorten the winter and spring exam periods: Again, two weeks is too long. Harvard could finish exams in 10 days without much of a problem. Phone polls have indicated that students favor the proposal and are willing to accept the increased chance of having two exams in one day in exchange for a less dreadfully extended exam period. Instead of hanging around Cambridge waiting to take finals, we could be skiing by mid-January and home...
Suppose an American offensive against Iraq bogged down in a bloody stalemate, and Saddam turned his chemical or bacteriological weapons against American troops with devastating effect. Might the U.S. then use nuclear weapons in retaliation and to shorten...
...family's health insurance covers almost all expenses. But Wanglie refuses to permit the demise of his spouse, who, according to him, believed firmly that only God should make such a determination. "She told me that if anything happened to her, she didn't want anything done to shorten her life," says Wanglie, 86. "I promised her I would respect that...