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INCOMPETENCE, while only depressing at the federal level, can provide hours of entertainment when people you know personally are destroying the country. Right next door to us, in Holyoke, the school committee wanted to shorten the school week to four days to save money. The mayor was reluctant because he thought it might create problems for working parents...No! Do you think...
...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...