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...alack, the willful monkey takes the tablet of Ahkmenrah with him to Washington, thus potentially bringing to life the Smithsonian's entire multistory subterranean warehouse of treasured antiquities and zoological oddities. (If monkeys could communicate, they might have something to say about the lopsided number of screenplays predicated on the antics of miscreant simians.) Even worse, Ahkmenrah has a brother, the crazily dressed, maniacally lisping Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria), who, less loved by his parents, intends to use the tablet to exact his revenge and rule the world. If Larry doesn't do something, it's not just his exhibitionist friends...
...Over the past 10 years, FAS has added 230 administrative staffers to its payroll, while Houses have kept their staff size steady over the same time period. Central administrators thus need to look inward for cuts. The administration’s main role should be to support the faculty and students here in pursuing their educational and developmental goals. The administration should find savings at its own expense before endangering areas that have a direct and serious effect on the lives of students—like academics and House life. Specifically, given its recent rapid growth, the administration must strongly...
...knows that much of the learning at Harvard takes place in section. This personalized learning environment of a section is lost when students become just another head in the crowd. An 18-student section is already too large to allow for desired personal attention and opportunities for discussion, and thus 18 should certainly not be the lower limit on section sizes. As a possible remedy to these cuts, professors should look into teaching or attending sections to supplement the experience, as a few excellent teachers already...
Although women play important public roles in various sectors of Iranian society and constitute the majority of university students, no woman thus far has been appointed to a significant ministry in post-revolutionary Iran. The woman who has held the highest Cabinet position is Massoumeh Ebtekar - better known to American television viewers of 30 years ago as "Mary," the students' spokeswoman during the U.S. embassy hostage crisis in Tehran. She was appointed by reformist President Mohammad Khatami as his Vice President as well as the head of the Department of Environment...
...space and defense and foreign policies.) And while he committed to holding talks with the Palestinian Authority, he added a new precondition for peace, requiring that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a "Jewish state." Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who will visit the White House next week, has thus far rejected that demand both out of concern for Israel's Arab minority and because the rights of Palestinian refugees have remained an issue on the negotiating agenda of the peace process up till now. (See pictures of life in Gaza under Hamas...