Word: switches
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Those who choose to switch concentrations are in a particularly tricky situation: Having lost my concentration adviser, I was left in a between-department vacuum. With the delay of concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year, Harvard should take the opportunity to seriously rethink its approach to advising—and hopefully steer its cumbersome bureaucracy towards catching the errors that really matter...
...majority of Harvard’s toilet paper, was not being environmentally friendly. “I found out that Kimberly-Clark source some of their materials from the boreal forest [in Canada],” Shope said. Shope approached Harvard Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) with a proposal to switch all the toilet paper on campus to 100 percent recycled products. FMO agreed to start with a pilot program at Eliot House using EcoSoft toilet paper. When no major opposition arose to the new brand, FMO agreed to make the switch, Shope said. EcoSoft paper products are certified by Green...
...only a couple of years after his karting debut as an 8-year-old that Hamilton raced to his first British championship. Around a dozen more karting titles followed before he made the switch in 2001 from these scaled-down vehicles to the more powerful cars. En route to winning the entry-level British Formula Renault series in 2003, he "made seasoned drivers look silly," says Tony Shaw, Hamilton's then team manager...
When asked what he would do if Democrats opposed increased funding to troops in Iraq, Lieberman refused to deny the popular rumor that he would switch parties, instead characterizing the idea as a “remote possibility.” His relationship to the Republican Party may indicate otherwise...
...course, a switch might disadvantage the Democratic legislative agenda and please Republicans, but it is an opportunity to transcend party-politics—an area Lieberman likes to claim as his specialty. Realigning with the correct party would make a powerful statement against the culture of self-aggrandizement and insider politics that defines Washington. What better way to prove the “independence” he brags about than to take such a bold action...