Word: final
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GSAS then guarantees students teaching fellowships for their next three years of study. Students receive another stipend in their final year of study to support them while they write their theses...
What they've forgotten is that the advantage of a final club never lay in its ability to make you popular. Today, they have become the Harvard man's passport to a social life. But the societies' principal purpose was to provide its members with good company and a good meal. The Porcellian was founded in 1791 by a group of friends who decided they wanted to eat roast pig together every month...
...clubs need to decide where exactly their future lies before their prestige is eroded completely. And while they're evaluating themselves, open parties sponsored by the Seneca and other organizations will become the mainstay of Harvard's social scene. Hopefully, by the time final clubs figure things out their niche in Harvard social circles will have been filled by more inclusive institutions. I toast the Seneca...
...plan to hand over the ethnically Palestinian Jerusalem suburb of Anata next week, under pressure from his right-wing opposition and even some key elements of his own coalition. But while the retreat had Palestinians and media commentators questioning whether Barak is able to deliver Israeli acceptance of final peace treaties with the Palestinians and with Syria, the maneuver may have been part of a plan to prepare them for concessions. "Barak may have floated the possibility of returning Anata to the Palestinians in order to test Israeli reaction," says TIME Jerusalem correspondent Aharon Klein. "Earlier, when he'd considered...
While domestic politics may appear to have restrained Barak from handing over either Abu Dis or Anata in the interim stage, the very mooting of the idea may have helped prepare the way for their transfer to the Palestinian Authority in a final treaty. "Barak has made clear he plans to eventually hand over both neighborhoods, and now it's only a matter of time," says Klein. "Next time it comes up for discussion, it's unlikely to make the headlines in the same way and the opposition is unlikely to muster the same support for blocking it. The public...