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Simon, who is in Israel now, was originally planning to use his time there to lay the final groundwork for this summer’s trip, but now he will begin efforts to remap Netivot’s itinerary and modify the trip for this winter. Because of Harvard’s winter recess schedule, it is unlikely students will be able to go to Israel for three weeks and adjustments will have to be made...
...Harvardt, successfully and not. Today, it remains unclear whether the University in a few years will resemble the draft Summers has sketched. Instead, Summers’ audacious approach, far more than the specifics of his views, may be his greatest legacy to Harvard. His approach has already laid the groundwork for a science-oriented, interdisciplinary campus in Allston and encouraged members of the Harvard College Curricular Review to adopt the same interdisciplinary approach to introductory undergraduate courses. It was the president’s outspokenness that spurred even the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), which for the past year...
...number of public speeches, Pusey stressed the need to expand the University’s infrastructure to accommodate the current number of enrolled students and also outlined a vision for a larger campus that would enable the College to admit even more applicants.Pusey laid the groundwork for the physical expansion of the University in a speech to the Associated Harvard Clubs, a group of alumni, in the spring of 1956. Calling the speech the “most serious and important” of his presidency up to that point, Pusey declared that Harvard needed $40 million?...
...Fantini says.However, Fantini also says that he thinks that Nolan’s proposal stems from “her enthusiasm to do well for schools, but I think she had to recognize you don’t surprise people with a motion to reallocate funds without the groundwork.”Nolan says that while her “analytical horsepower” and her political activism prepared her for her role as a committee member, she acknowledges that there are things she still needs to learn.“It’s been three months...
...former adviser's testimony is wrong and President Bush did not authorize the leak of intelligence information to counter attacks from a critic of the Iraq war, the White House isn't saying so. In fact, the President's men are laying the groundwork for defending the disclosure in case the testimony by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, turns out to be accurate...