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...meter dash is the shortest possible race, but one competitor easily separated himself from the field, and it is with little surprise that I note his name atop the overall scoreboard through five events...
Because we know both how good it feels to actually finish a book and how rarely that actually happens at Harvard, the titles are arranged roughly from shortest to longest. (Thanks to the members of the Eliot, Mather, Pfoho, and FUP mailing lists for providing the recommendations...
...reading period that begins today is the shortest in recent memory, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be wasting any less time lurking on Gchat, perusing your favorite blogs, stalking your section crush on Facebook, or watching whole seasons of TV shows on DVD. In the interest of enlivening your procrastination routine, it’s important to periodically discover new and more mindless diversions. So the next time you’re enduring the agonizing 72 minutes before you can treat yourself to more Megavideo, try a few of these on for size...
Under the terms of the program circulated by FAS, the University’s largest school, tenured faculty members 65 or older who have served at Harvard for at least 10 years are offered three retirement tracks varying by dates of retirement and accompanying benefits. The shortest term “1-Year Option” allows a maximum of a single year of paid sabbatical to faculty looking to enter retirement in 2011, while corresponding tracks make provisions for those indicating an intention to end their service in 2012 or 2014. Those faculty choosing to participate must accept...
Lingle's two-year contract with the teachers union and its 13,000 members amounts to a 7.9% pay cut. The bulk of the union's teachers will have 17 furlough days a year, giving Hawaii the shortest school year in the nation. "It's completely Draconian," says Vernadette Gonzalez, whose 5-year-old daughter, Inez Anderson, is a kindergartner at Noelani. "People are shocked when they hear that this was allowed, or even considered as a sane solution to the budget crisis." Gonzalez fears that students will not be able to make up for the lost school time, noting...