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...months and years ahead, he said. Even so, Knowles warned students that while decisions to overhaul the curriculum should be made this year, their implementation would require a transition period. “I can understand your impatience, but remember, you can’t snap your fingers and have members of the Faculty create and shape major new courses in the course of a week or two,” he said. Since a new curriculum likely will not be in place in time to affect many current undergraduates, Knowles said the Faculty would work to improve students?...
...course, if the early predictions of Segway's success had been borne out, we would have a major crisis on our hands. When the machine was unveiled roughly five years ago, Dean Kamen, its official inventor, swore that the world?s car-weary city slickers would snap them up to travel distances too short to drive and too long to walk. As cities around the world move to push bulky, polluting cars out of their congested downtowns, he predicted, Segways would become the urban transporters of choice. He wasn?t alone in his enthusiasm. Such renowned investors and entrepreneurs...
...parliament only a year later following mass demonstrations in Bangkok calling for him to step down, triggered by the controversial sale of his family company Shin Corp. to a group led by Singapore's Temasek Holdings. Since then, Thai politics have descended into high farce, culminating in an April snap election boycotted by the opposition and later invalidated by the courts. The election commissioners who oversaw this debacle refused to resign until they were briefly thrown in jail. A fresh ballot has been scheduled for Oct. 15, but it may well have to be delayed while new commissioners are installed...
Khatami briefly addressed Iran’s nuclear program, saying that he believes that through negotiations Iran would sign the additional protocol allowing, among other things, snap inspections...
...first win of the season. PENN 2, HARVARD 0 The Quakers (1-3, 1-0 Ivy) captured their first win of the season by limiting the Crimson to five shots. Penn scored at the 5:44 mark of the game, and then again eleven minutes from the buzzer to snap a five-game losing streak to Harvard. Harvard received a boost from the return from injury of sophomore goaltender Kelly Knoche. Knoche, a second team All-Ivy selection last year, made six saves after sitting out the first two games. MASSACHUSSETTS 4, HARVARD 1 The Crimson...