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Once again, there will be no real winter vacation. As their friends at other colleges around the country use winter recess to recuperate from final exams and projects, Harvard students, who failed in their attempt to win calendar reform last spring, find themselves preparing for the January panic...
Other students, however, feel the current academic calendar adds too much pressure to what should be a stress-free season...
Although students have pressed to move exams to December in recent years, Seltzer says there are both benefits and drawbacks to changing the calendar...
...votes earlier this year, the HBS faculty decided to adopt an amended year-round calendar and to reduce the number of required courses. The faculty also voted to create a required course that will provide first-year students with a unified introduction to the foundations of business...
Stengel found Mandela to be full of contradictions -- guarded yet outgoing, sophisticated yet unworldly. "The duality surprised me," says Stengel, "but some of the naivete comes from the fact that he was away for 27 years." Stengel was also impressed with Mandela's sharp memory. "He is both calendar and camera: he can picture and re-create a scene in his mind...