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Summer will be one week shorter than normal for this fall’s incoming first-year class, the result of an effort by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to minimize the year’s conflict between the academic calendar and the Jewish New Year’s holiday of Rosh Hashanah...
...academic calendars are voted on officially at faculty meetings, but the registrar’s office provides a suggested calendar to the faculty. Calendars are approved by the faculty years in advance...
...cease-fire. But the Israeli leadership is unlikely to be in a mind to hear such advice when its appointment books are filled with funerals. They'll be focused, instead, on exacting revenge and raising the cost of future strikes, adding ever more funerals onto the other side's calendar...
...that Sharon has hired a Belgian defense lawyer to prepare a defense against potential war crimes charges against the Israeli leader currently being investigated by a Belgian judge. Sharon scratched Belgium off his itinerary on a recent European tour, and although the Israeli government insists this was simply for "calendar reasons," it would certainly have been politic to avoid the possibility - which currently exists under Belgian law - that Mr. Sharon could have been arrested by the investigating judge. Israel's foreign ministry subsequently announced, "The ministry advises all leaders in Israel not to visit nations whose legal systems are liable...
...worry about the economy eight or nine months ago, which of course was two months before he actually stepped in to start cutting rates Jan. 3. Under heavy fire from new Senate Banking chairman Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) over that lag, Greenspan copped to a slip of the calendar. "Let me amend my remarks from last week," he said, smiling - he'd meant to say December...