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...short speech, Udall said that the "country was ending an era of an imperial presidency, cold war attitudes, and cheap resources" and that "the country must adapt to these changes...
Sadly, mainstream movie producers aren't so willing to gamble with original science fiction screenplays, however, preferring to adapt novels and short stories. So until the Ellisons and Herberts are encouraged to create for film, there will be dog days for science fiction on the screen...
...Harvard Coop, under threat of a law suit by a Harvard Law student, paid $8000 this summer to adapt its cash registers to comply with a Massachusetts law requiring that the registers show price totals to customers...
...Harvard Coop, under threat of a law suit by a Harvard Law student, paid $8000 this summer to adapt its cash registers to comply with a Massachusetts law requiring that the registers show price totals to customers...
What makes the Summer School a good setting for this kind of observation about Harvard is that it is short and attracts a wide range of not-especially-Harvard types, people who come here from very different settings to which they will quickly return. Not given the chance to adapt, they go through the kind of rude clash between their non-Harvard selves and the University that is usually reserved for first-term freshmen here (and their malaise is different anyway, having to do more with the painful adjustment to being average...