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...finally outlined, the College will end up with a slightly tweaked Core. The Curricular Review has not lasted four years to tweak the Core; it’s here to fundamentally redefine Harvard’s general education. We hope that professors approve this philosophy, and begin the arduous task of implementing its rule over a much, much different “Core...
...Yale athletic director Thomas Beckett, will move forward with efforts to initiate a tournament, what is certain is that any potential change is still far off on the horizon. Getting the approval of the league’s athletic directors would be just the starting point of an arduous process that would ultimately end up with the eight Ivy presidents—and as one might recall from past musings on the lack of Ivy League inclusion in the Division I-AA football playoffs, the Ivy presidents are not a group receptive to rapid change in athletics. A potential stumbling...
...deal with uncertainty. Doctors are often only as good as their diagnostic tests, and those tests aren't perfect. Too often we are forced to say, "You might have cancer"--which leads to lots of fear, anxiety and lost sleep. It is also often the beginning of an arduous process of more tests and in some cases surgical procedures. The only way to be absolutely sure about cancer is to examine some of the suspicious cells under a microscope. That means a biopsy. And in the U.S. we perform more than a million breast biopsies a year. The results come...
Holidays can be exhausting, often requiring long travel times and arduous hours in the kitchen. But today is one holiday when all you have to do is say ‘hello...
...days after I returned from winter break my freshman year, my mom gave birth to my twin siblings, Adam and Mariam. I was on speaker phone for the hours it took to choose their names. It’s an arduous process in a Lebanese family. Do you name after the grandfather? Which side? Have you slighted any uncles? Luckily, enough people have had children in my family that just about everyone over the age of 20 has a namesake or two (even...