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...does not have to be this way. The committee’s recommendation outlines in detail a shift in the timing of fall semester exams from January to December, which is primarily made possible by beginning the year earlier in September. With the exception of our equally foolish friends at Princeton, the other American universities with whom we are regularly classed follow this kind of calendar, and we can follow their lead. The calendar proposed by the committee places the first day of classes immediately after Labor Day and includes a reading and an exam period that concludes...
Perhaps most importantly, this shift does not necessitate a drastic change in the structure of our reading and exam period. One of our great privileges as students at Harvard is our reading period, a luxury enjoyed at few other schools. Currently there are 12 reading days in the Fall semester; the new calendar guarantees between eight and 11 days depending upon the date of Labor Day each year. Every few years we will face the worst-case scenario of only eight reading days—but with the semester presumably fresher in our minds during that period, requiring less relearning...
Yale also enjoyed a surge in applications this year, most likely a result of its shift to a single-choice early action program, Fitzsimmons said...
...attacks on Washington and New York City did more than just shift the focus of policy away from great-power relations. The crisis reminded the world that--quite apart from the President--there were plenty of people among his top advisers with far more experience than Rice and with very firm agendas of their own. As the war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban morphed into plans for an attack on Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, it became clear that the Bush team was deeply split. By 2003 there were at least four different streams of thought among Administration...
...LYON: A shift started in November...