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...full Faculty prepares to discuss Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s preregistration proposal at tomorrow’s Faculty meeting, we hope it will be an occasion for thoughtful, serious consideration of the proposal in its entirety—not just a rubber stamp. The Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) claims preregistration could lead to far-reaching improvements in multiple aspects of student life—from shortening the coursepack line to increasing the quality of section leaders to alleviating Harvard’s advising woes. But each of these expansive claims ought to be independently...
...China's National People's Congress, when it opens March 5 to rubber-stamp Wen's promotion to Premier, will complete a generational changing of the guard. The enigmatic Hu Jintao, already named last year to lead the Communist Party, is set to succeed Jiang Zemin as President. Meanwhile Wen, 60, will replace Zhu Rongji. He has some size-14 hobnailed boots to fill. The brilliant but overbearing Zhu, 74, brought China into the World Trade Organization and hacked away for a decade at the stultifying vestiges of the command economy. For the world's most prominent businessmen, including Microsoft...
...designed by needlepoint doyenne Erica Wilson were featured in designer Anna Sui's latest runway show, inspiring trendsetters to take up the needle. Sales of needlepoint purse kits are up in some craft shops, and fashionable boutiques are selling needlepoint bracelets. British artist Sonja Todd has even created postage-stamp-size stitched canvases that re-create the art from classic record-album covers such as Nirvana's Nevermind and Michael Jackson's Thriller. --L.McL...
...Thaksin called his Thai Rak Thai colleague (and police-academy classmate) a potential successor. But last week he told a group of generals, "I will have to look for someone else" because Purachai "can't get along with anyone." Purachai claimed the real issue was his refusal to "rubber stamp" an inflated budget request from his permanent secretary, who happens to be Thaksin's brother...
...corner of our lives safe from a designer makeover? The latest renovation site: the kitchen sink. METHOD dish soap, in scents like mandarin, mint and cucumber, comes in bulbous plastic bottles crafted by Karim Rashid, the Egyptian-Canadian designer who has put his stamp on perfume bottles, expensive furniture and garbage cans. Martha Stewart has released her own impeccable bottle of dishwashing liquid...