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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...foremost problem with this current calendar phase is simply that reading period has become truncated. Last year’s fall reading period, excluding winter break, was ten days long. By contrast, this year’s reading period is only one week long—a full three days shorter. For many, this adjustment resulted in a far more hectic Thanksgiving recess than in years past, as students faced returning from break with fast-approaching paper due dates and impending exams. In the past, this arrangement would not be such a problem (the spring semester has always transitioned from...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Reading Period Woes | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

Overall, we recognize that the new calendar has many benefits, not least the rescheduling of exams before winter recess. The implementation, however, has not been perfect, and specific flaws require sincere attention from the administration going forward...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Reading Period Woes | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

Construction on the space will begin soon and will most likely take several months to complete, according to Jillson, who told The Crimson in late September that she hoped the project would be done in time for the annual Winter Carnival held in mid-January...

Author: By Julia L Ryan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Café To See Delayed Opening | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...charging UC fees so that it does not trouble students and reflect badly on the College. Besides, the last thing Harvard wants is for disgruntled students to realize too late that, instead of investing in the UC, they could have bought comfy, warm clothing and boots for the chilly winter drawing ever nearer...

Author: By Eric E Liao | Title: Fees U Don't C | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...science and peace, 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice - much of which is a mile and a half deep. The continent holds the record for the coldest temperature in recorded history: a numbing -128.6°F on July 21, 1983, in the middle of the southern hemisphere's winter. Nearly one and a half times as large as the United States, Antarctica is geologically classified as a desert, garnering less than an inch of precipitation each year. It is the coldest, driest and windiest continent, not to mention the highest - Antarctica's average elevation is 7,544 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antarctica | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

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