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...morning in (admittedly only slightly) warmer climes. But there’s another factor, too, which makes capris and ice cream season seem even farther away. And that’s the fact that in any community saturated in the very particular and somewhat contrary demands of the academic calendar, warmer weather means winding down. In other words, it’s time for wrapping things up even as we’re still wrapped in layers of winter accoutrements. Even the most dedicated, head-in-the-clouds Romantic poet would be hard-pressed to discern a Wordsworthian recital...
...Airline Quality Rating is based on an evaluation of data covering on-time arrivals, involuntary denied boardings (overbookings), mishandled baggage and consumer complaint rates. All data used in the analysis are based on month-to-month-findings provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation for calendar year...
...backwards calendar of TV, spring is the season of death, a time when fans launch drives to save endangered shows, a cause usually as futile as protesting the falling of autumn leaves. So it was unusual last month when fans of the animated sitcom Family Guy managed to bring it back, not by writing letters but by spending cash. When Family Guy--canceled not once but twice by Fox during its 1999-2002 run--was released on DVD, fans bought 2.2 million copies. That number helped persuade Cartoon Network (which reruns the show) to give Family Guy a third life...
...room." Don't get the wrong idea - Gondry's youth in Versailles, France, was happy, richly colored by the creative ethos of his computer-programmer dad and his musician mom. Fascinated by geometry and pattern, Gondry went to art school. At 22, he was working for a calendar printer - "Boring!" - when he figured out he wasn't born to be anyone's employee. "So I did everything I could to get fired," he says, "coming in later and later every morning. They told me to take off for two days, but I got a doctor's certificate to extend...
...schedule only two weeks out-of-sync with Harvard’s other schools. And surely if the College and other schools with finals after Christmas are willing to change, the four J-term schools should be willing to as well. Unless all of Harvard University meets halfway on calendar reform, students from the College and four other schools will be left with a flawed J-term as their only reward for their sacrifice. Harvard University’s calendar can serve students best by finding common ground among its nine members...