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...Spring, under the leadership of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross, and Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz, the College released the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) report. Among its recommendations were calls to do away with the Core in favor of distribution requirements, a new brand of courses, the Harvard College Courses, a push for students to study abroad, improved advising and science education and delay the concentration decision until the middle of sophomore year. These proposals and others will likely be subject to debate and voting by the Faculty...
...termbill fee hike. That $60 fee on your termbill is almost double the $35 it used to be, and it will increase again to $75 for next year. Having failed to mention the fee hike when running for council president, Mahan successfully persuaded the campus to narrowly vote in favor of the increase in a school-wide referendum; however, a proposal to make the fee mandatory failed. With a lot more bling in its coffers, the council has promised to come through with bigger and better events and greater funding of student groups...
...derived, they will sandwich a layer of pink film between two pieces of glass, instead of painting the walls. In Hong Kong, where they are building an 85,000-sq.-ft. store for Lane Crawford, they plan to ditch the traditional formula of clothing racks plus wall fixtures in favor of furniture and shelves that sit on the floor to resemble a mansion rather than a department store. --By Nadia Mustafa
Such men, who have emerged as a notable force in the past year, cannot necessarily be characterized as gay or straight, nor can they be written off as dandies. Usually under 40, well groomed and fit, they eschew khakis in favor of expensive jeans, like those from Paper Denim & Cloth, worn with brightly striped shirts or blazers. They are also buying suits--not because they have to but because they want to. And in perhaps the biggest shift, they are shopping by themselves, not with a wife, girlfriend or partner loitering outside the dressing room to offer an appraisal...
...igniting concerns. Franklin, a former Air Force Reserve officer, served briefly in the U.S. military attache's office in Israel in the late 1990s. Since the summer of 2001, he has worked as an Iran expert for Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's third ranking official, a neoconservative long in favor of tougher measures against Iran. In 2001 Franklin and a Pentagon colleague were dispatched to Rome for a meeting with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who had been a key figure in the 1980s' Iran-contra scandal. They were seeking intelligence on Iran from...