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...beginnings, we trudge back to Cambridge to rehash a semester’s worth of course material, anxious about our papers and exams and angry about our short winter break. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In the spring of 2004, a University-wide Committee on Calendar Reform chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53 voted 18-1 in favor of calendar reform. While then we criticized the proposal on this page, one too many January chills have changed our minds, and, we hope, will change Harvard’s mind...
...might become dean of Harvard Medical School—his alma matter and the place where he was once a professor—Hyman said he was not a candidate for the deanship. His “unfinished business” at Harvard, he added, involves University-wide issues such as the establishment of a science and engineering committee and the Allston expansion...
...student government representing Harvard’s 13,000 graduate and professional students released Wednesday a position paper on the search for the next University President. The paper, issued by the Harvard Graduate Council (HGC), called for academic and social collaboration between Harvard’s schools, a University-wide “commitment to service,” and graduate student involvement in the selection of the next president...
...Communications blackouts aren't uncommon-in 2005, for example, Pakistan was cut off from the Internet for 12 days after a fishing boat accidentally snagged its main international connection; sharks have even been blamed for biting into lightly armored lines. But outages on the scale of this Asia-wide meltdown aren't supposed to happen. And with the march of globalization, companies are more dependent than ever on global networks, which makes the threat of communications paralysis particularly unsettling. So what can be done to prevent future blackouts...
...dropped the ball. Other agencies, most notably the State, Justice and Energy departments, lag in sending experts and advisers to help the Iraqis pull themselves together. Uniformed officers say they can pull off a surge, but it won't make any difference if there isn't a larger, government-wide strategy to mend the broken country...