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...January exam period draws to a close, many students are breathing sighs of relief at finishing their last ever post-winter break finals. Next year, Harvard will convert to a bi-semester calendar system, which moves exams to before the break, and therefore allows for a longer January vacation. Rationally, this should make me happy—there are plenty of good reasons to make the shift, and I benefit from these changes as much as anyone else. But as I begin to plan my final intersession, I can’t help but feel a little nostalgic...
...prolonged winter break discourages these kinds of social activities. Under the current system, one can spend reading period at Harvard and a week-long intersession with friends; faced with a three-week long “J-term” in January, on the other hand, many students will likely pass both the two week winter break and the three week J-term at home...
...library, write a memoir, and earn some bank on that mythical "speaking circuit" that has proved so remunerative for Presidents past. His immediate predecessors include two astoundingly productive ex-presidents (Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton), some lackadaisical ones (Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush), a disgraced lion in winter (Richard Nixon) and a man who, in hindsight, was likely in the emerging stages of a devastating sickness (Ronald Reagan). But America has had many presidents over the centuries (43, last time we counted) who generally fall into several, non-exclusive categories...
...enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people: "Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive ... that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet...
...calling for uncomfortable sacrifices. "You can have your lifestyle and your business here," says Masdar's Awad. And though it may make old-school greens shake in their Birkenstocks, this carbon-free city next to a very unsustainable desert metropolis - where watering keeps the lawns green in the dry winter and everything is air-conditioned - represents at least one future of environmentalism, a future that embraces new technology to remedy the ills of old technology. That's because those in the rising developing world - which is how Abu Dhabi is classified, despite a GDP per capita of $63,000 - want...