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Granted, the proposed calendar does raise some questions in terms of the traditional year-opening exercises. Freshman Week, preceding the start of classes for first-years, provides a great chance to get somewhat acclimatized to Harvard; under the proposed calendar it would have to be pushed back into late August. The introductory first-year programs in the arts, urban service and the great outdoors, which began many of our careers at Harvard on happy notes, would also have to be moved back farther into the summer. These programs can still be accommodated, however, and given that towards...
...screen on CNN with a live broadcast of Cheney praising America’s operation in Iraq in a prepared speech while, a thousand miles away and a few inches over on the screen, the aftermath of a massive car bombing in Baghdad flared and billowed in the night. Somewhat less dramatically, a news ticker gave a running account of last week’s sudden anti-American uprising in Iraq, while Dr. Rice testified to the Sept. 11 Commission that our actions in Iraq were removing a source of “violence and fear and instability...
Under the proposal, students will be required to fulfill a set of distribution requirements either with departmental classes or a set of general education classes open to all students—somewhat like those in the Core—called the Harvard College courses...
Since its inception the Core has been somewhat streamlined...
With that goal in mind, Walking Tall aims to present a classic tale of redemption and revenge, a film about a homecoming soldier so morally offended by the corruption that has seized his hometown that he takes matters into his own righteous hands. Just how successfully the somewhat underdeveloped plotline accomplishes these aims is arguable. But in an era of directing when films race to distinguish themselves through bigger and noisier special effects, Walking Tall is a refreshing exception to the trend...