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...leading reformist party announced last week that it would boycott the Feb. 20 elections to choose a new parliament, charging that a panel dominated by hard-line mullahs had effectively rigged the outcome by disqualifying some 2,000 potential candidates - most of them reformists. The move capped a month-long drama that climaxed with the resignation of 130 reformist parliament members in protest. After attempting to mediate a compromise, Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei came down firmly on the side of the conservatives. Calling reformists "ignorant people" who parroted "the enemies of this nation," he sternly refused to reverse...
...After a month-long renovation largely financed by a $20,000 grant from the College, Quincy House reopened its gym yesterday, setting the course for the proposed renovation of all House gyms...
Ancient Rome is suddenly looking more youthful, and not because those shiny new Vespa scooters are everywhere. After a mysterious month-long absence, in which Italians speculated that their leader was recovering from plastic surgery, Prime Minister SILVIO BERLUSCONI finally stepped back in front of the cameras last week. Noticeably tauter around the throat and eyes, the billionaire politician conceded only that he "took a few hours for myself every morning to get back in shape." Face-lift or not, the hubbub proves that "more than a Prime Minister, Berlusconi is a star," says newspaper editor Giuliano Ferrara...
...students, managing eight classes is hard enough; adding a ninth class in a 4-1-4 schedule would be too much. If the J-Term were structured so as to allow for the opportunity to do research or to study abroad, it would provide a tempting alternative to intense, month-long classes—but students could pursue these endeavors just as easily if given a longer winter break in place of a J-Term...
...ensure that J-Term classes were of the same standards as term-time classes, and not regarded as a joke, as has been the case at other schools who have the 4-1-4 schedule. Unless required to, few professors would care to shoulder the extra workload of a month-long class, especially if planning it cut into the teaching demands of the Fall semester. Without attracting the quality classes that the true semesters do, a J-Term would likely offer cast-off courses—filling classrooms with dispirited junior professors forced to teach out of career considerations...