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...with class at a popular time can just as easily stop lecture seven minutes before the hour. Sure, some professors will stop late; but that happens now anyway, with some professors running well beyond the tolling of Memorial Church bells. The length of class will not be changed, just shifted. At this point, the question becomes how to get this noble idea off of paper and into practice. Good question. I certainly don’t trust the student body (or, hell, myself) to take on such a responsible initiative. That leaves the faculty. Let them, starting now, coordinate...
...Mullen said. “However, our team just isn’t deep enough right now to be able to sustain the loss of three of our top guys. The Ivy League was really tough this year.” The Crimson’s will now shift its focus to NCAA Regionals in an attempt to salvage the season. —Staff writer Gabriel M. Velez can be reached at gmvelez@fas.harvard.edu...
...shift in the lineup, Card could be named Treasury Secretary by the beginning of the year. Among his possible replacements are White House budget director Joshua Bolten, former Montana Governor Marc Racicot and deputy budget director Clay Johnson III. An adviser says the personnel shifts will be gradual: "They don't want to communicate panic because they're not panicked...
...team of engineers and architects do is alter the composition of concrete and plastic. To create the Scintilla tiles, hundreds of light-conducting channels are carved into a transparent block of clear or pigmented polymer. These channels act like fiber-optic filaments, giving the material the ability to magically shift, shimmer and ripple in response to movement and changes in light intensity. As a result, the tiles react to shadows and moving lights and accordingly disperse them on the tiles' surface...
...lead. After Harvard fell behind 29-28, a huge block from sophomores Mimi Hanley and Suzie Trimble tied it up at 29. But the Crimson fell just short of victory, as the Tigers pulled away with a 31-29 win. The second game was a welcome shift from the first in which Princeton dominated the struggling Crimson. “The first game was a bit of a disaster,” Blotky said. “Our main issue was that Princeton was controlling the momentum and controlling the pace of the game, and I think it took...