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...report notes a lack of sufficient Harvard-affiliated child care facilities as a problem requiring immediate attention. Inadequate childcare is viewed by some as a roadblock for female faculty on the tenure track...
...incoherence. As the Core’s disintegration demonstrates, failing to spell out details of implementation is a fatal error. The Standing Committee on the Core Program (SCCP), the body responsible for the Core’s original introduction and ongoing administration, has become a bureaucratic roadblock, as demonstrated by its repeated refusal to grant Core exemptions to students who have taken departmental courses equivalent to—or harder than—Core classes. The result has been that adherence to bizarre rules, such as the stipulation that Core classes must have a midterm and a final, has taken...
...embarrassing gap in the quality of student accommodation. The administration should allow this system to be installed in dorms across campus and refrain from paternalistic regulation. Some say that installing such a regulatory system to curbe the audio-visual appetite of students is desirable because television is a roadblock to social, extracurricular, and academic endeavors that make Harvard such a vibrant place. But in not offering cable or satellite television, Harvard is the exception to the rule—many schools still have thriving campuses even if students have the distraction of television. Furthermore, many students already watch short excerpts...
...offering cake, a band and beefy security guards. On the day of the wedding, the coordinator shows up with a handful of men--dressed discreetly in suits and ties, with walkie-talkie earpieces--who surround a private home. Often the guards use cones to set up a roadblock down the street, so that if police arrive there will be sufficient time to warn those inside. In many cases, the wedding coordinator is able to fend off the police with an ample bribe (cash or cases of alcohol, which can later be resold...
...avoid scuttling its hard-won dialogue with Pyongyang. Kim has repeatedly shown his willingness to walk away at the slightest provocation. Just this week, while the U.S. was parleying with the North Koreans in New York, similar talks between Japan and the North in Vietnam hit a roadblock. According to Japan's Foreign Ministry, Pyongyang temporarily suspended negotiations after Tokyo demanded that it account for Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and '80s. Considering how tricky talking to the North can be, just achieving the immediate goal-the shutdown and dismantlement of the Yongbyon reactor-would...