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...being forced to take their third and fourth-choice classes. Polk said Kennedy School administrators did not officially notify students of professors’ departures, leaving students to find out through the news media. “Some of the frustration students feel is that there’s zero communication from the administration,” he said. According to Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, who lectures on public policy at the Kennedy School, students have expressed frustration over the fact that some of the courses were cancelled on the first day of shopping period...
...relief that nuclear safety was not breached, is to miss the point. The seemingly impossible collision of two subs in a large ocean should remind us of the fallacy by which we assume nuclear weapons will never be used. Because the threat of global nuclear war is not zero, even a small chance of war each year, multiplied over a number of years, adds up to the likelihood that the weapons will be used. Like those two subs stalking through the Atlantic, the odds will begin to align. Mathematically, they are destined...
Harvard College tuition will rise 3.5 percent for the 2009-2010 school year—a substantial real increase in light of nearly zero inflation last year...
...deadly arrogance. With the cities emptied and the population under Khmer Rouge control, Pol Pot's means of implementation was to begin exterminating anyone who didn't fit this new ideal. He declared that he was turning Cambodia - now renamed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea - back to "Year Zero," and intellectuals, businessmen, Buddhists and foreigners were all purged. "What is rotten must be removed," read a popular Khmer Rouge slogan at the time, and remove they did, often by execution but sometimes simply by working people to death in the fields...
...defensive end of the floor, forcing a bad Lions miss. However, Columbia grabbed the offensive board and was able to call timeout with five seconds left on the shot clock.Off the inbounds, the Lions were still unable to find an opening. But right as the shot clock struck zero, a debatable foul call on Berry sent Dwyer to the line.Dwyer made the first but missed the second, giving Harvard the ball, down two, with twenty seconds left.The final Crimson possession saw both Berry and Tay try to create room for their own shot. The ball wound up in the hands...