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Updated: Monday, December 1, 2008 at 5:54pm

Committee should keep post-break calendar

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Published Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Some of the greatest discoveries in history have been accidental. The apple fell on Newton’s head and, voila, gravity. A Swiss inventor noticed the hook-like shape of burrs when pulling them off his dog, inspiring him to create Velcro. A blind monk named Dom Pierre Perignon invented champagne while tinkering with insufficiently fermented wine. Likewise, Yale administrators discovered that two weeks after Thanksgiving break are better than one.
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